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Ok... read this.how fucking true is this!
Immature brats vs. old hags
That title is a lot more polarizing than the rather delicately worded "younger vs. older" name we chose instead for our survey, but apparently there's some truth to those ugly descriptions when it comes to how the two groups regard each other. And while both sides slung arrows, it was the supposedly more mature older moms who were the harsher. Thirty-six percent of younger moms (and a whopping 54 percent of moms 24 years old or younger) say that an older mom has tried to make them feel like they're too immature or inexperienced to care for a baby. On the flip side, just 12 percent of the older moms report that a younger mom made them feel like they're too old and not energetic enough to care for a child. In addition, a full third of the younger group complain that they've been actively snubbed by other moms because of their age, compared to just a tenth of the older group. "When I pick up my daughter from daycare, the other [older] moms look me up and down and make up excuses not to arrange playdates with me," says Sheena Perez, 21, of Elgin, Illinois. Christina Malerba, 24, of Staten Island, New York, feels the bias, too. "I run into older moms who just assume I'm a bad parent because of my age. It's not hard to tell what they're thinking," she says. "I try to talk to other moms in the park, but they look at me like I'm a little kid." And Marlea Bergeson, 26, of New London, Connecticut, reports, "My husband is 36, and so most older mothers take him way more seriously as a parent than they do me. They don't even acknowledge me."
The younger moms may feel the heat more because, according to our survey, older moms do tend to make more judgments
So yeah... PROOF that this happens.. all around the world.. sucks people have to be that way tho!
Immature brats vs. old hags
That title is a lot more polarizing than the rather delicately worded "younger vs. older" name we chose instead for our survey, but apparently there's some truth to those ugly descriptions when it comes to how the two groups regard each other. And while both sides slung arrows, it was the supposedly more mature older moms who were the harsher. Thirty-six percent of younger moms (and a whopping 54 percent of moms 24 years old or younger) say that an older mom has tried to make them feel like they're too immature or inexperienced to care for a baby. On the flip side, just 12 percent of the older moms report that a younger mom made them feel like they're too old and not energetic enough to care for a child. In addition, a full third of the younger group complain that they've been actively snubbed by other moms because of their age, compared to just a tenth of the older group. "When I pick up my daughter from daycare, the other [older] moms look me up and down and make up excuses not to arrange playdates with me," says Sheena Perez, 21, of Elgin, Illinois. Christina Malerba, 24, of Staten Island, New York, feels the bias, too. "I run into older moms who just assume I'm a bad parent because of my age. It's not hard to tell what they're thinking," she says. "I try to talk to other moms in the park, but they look at me like I'm a little kid." And Marlea Bergeson, 26, of New London, Connecticut, reports, "My husband is 36, and so most older mothers take him way more seriously as a parent than they do me. They don't even acknowledge me."
The younger moms may feel the heat more because, according to our survey, older moms do tend to make more judgments
So yeah... PROOF that this happens.. all around the world.. sucks people have to be that way tho!