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by joelbluminator 2246 days ago
well in your 50s your kids are grown, in your 30s they were just born. So companies are better hiring 50 year olds?
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That's quite an assumption to make about when someone had kids.
It's ballpark accurate though, right?
eh? not at all. the mean age for a first child is now 29.

https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2019/19/average-age-of-first-t...

and

https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/figures/detail/37744eng

the latter has underlying data for which you can extract %ile parent age. To save you the time, by parent age 40 it's under 10%ile.