Number of Dutch women having first child before age of 25 falls by a third

摘要

The late average age at which Dutch women start families not only poses no medical risk to mothers and children but also offers social benefits, epidemiologists said this week in the Dutch Journal of Medicine (Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde 2008;152:1507-12).In choosing to have their first child at about 29, Dutch women are practising "prudent family planning," they argue.