My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.
Being a grandparent is whole new phase in your life.
But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.
My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now.
My mother was 18 when I was born. She split with my father when I was 6, and married another man when I was about 7. My mother was about 25, my stepfather was about 26, I'm six or seven, I was looking at them and I knew they were just too young.
I was by far the youngest of the family, and at times it was like being an only child.
I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.
My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family.
My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.
I was 28 when my father died, and I was an only child.