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My understanding was that the best time for women to have children was between 20-30 years old, not 18-20.
From what I've read, 20-30 is when women have most of their eggs at the best quality, and have the lowest health risk in pregnancy.
Where does the 18-20 come from? Like I guess you're most fertile at 20 but that's the only metric I can see thats best at 20. Hell, a lot of sources even say you have the best chance of natural conception in your late 20s.
It comes from men being attracted to teenagers and wanting to justify the attraction.
Ugh that's so fucking gross and literally not factual.
Any man interested in teens is 100% predatory and no amount of pseudoscience is gonna make up for the fact that
A) teens' bodies are not equipped to carry a baby without complications
B) teens are not mentally equipped to be parents
C) they only like teens because they're predators and teens are the only ones naive enough to fall for their shitty manipulation tactics.
English isn't my first language nor am I from Western country, so a question: 18 and 19 are also teenagers?
Yes, “eighteen” and “nineteen”
They're considered "teens" both linguistically and culturally?
Culturally they're in a transitory stage. Legally adults, but they're new to it and it's frowned upon to sexually pursue them if you're much older because they're new to adulthood
Yes. 18 year olds are technically adults in the US, but that doesn’t mean their bodies can support and birth babies as well as when they’re older.
I think they are restricted in that regard biologically way less than psychologically.
Teenager's brains aren't fully developed yet, either.
Both mothers and babies have worse outcomes overall when the mothers are teenagers. It's more dangerous.
Yes.
From thirteen to nineteen they are teenagers.