NFL owners voted Monday to let Mark Davis move his Oakland Raiders franchise to Las Vegas. The 31-1 vote felt like an exclamation point to Goodman â capping a decades-long effort to move the city beyond its somewhat disreputable past and win legitimacy as a professional sports town.
So, at what age are women having their first child? The median age of mothers giving birth to their first child is roughly 28 years, two years younger than the average across all mothers.It is also important to note that this median age is based on children of the current relationship only.he median age for both childbirth and birth of first child has remained steady since 2001. About one-half of births are registered as first births. The median age of women giving birth to their second child is roughly 32 years.
In Western, Northern, and Southern Europe, first-time mothers are on average 26 to 29 years old, up from 23 to 25 years at the start of the 1970s. In a number of European countries (Spain), the mean age of women at first childbirth has now even crossed the 30 year threshold. This process is not restricted to Europe. Asia, Japan and the United States are all seeing average age at first birth on the rise, and increasingly the process is spreading to countries in the developing world like China, Turkey and Iran. In the U.S., the average age of first childbirth was 26 in 2013. In present generations it is more common to have children at an older age. Several factors may influence the decisions of mothers when having their first baby.