First time Dutch mothers are getting older, but 80% have kids - DutchNews.nl

First time Dutch mothers are getting older, but 80% have kids - DutchNews.nl

The average age at which women in the Netherlands have their first child has risen slightly again, to 30.4 years,...

Dutch women waiting still longer to have children

Women in the Netherlands are waiting increasingly longer to have their first child. The average age to become a first-time mother last year was 30.4 years. That is the highest level in the Statistics Netherlands (CBS) data, dating back to 1950. It is also above the European average.In the 1950s, women were, on average, 26 years old when they became mothers for the first time. That dropped to 24 in the early 1970s. Since then, the average age has…