I was surprised by this news that comes from Colombia and that tells us about meeting of six generations of women with the birth of a baby. Little Mariana arrived in this world and was received by her mother (16 years old), her grandmother (38 years old), her great-grandmother (60 years old), her great-great grandmother (77 years old) and her mother, 95 years old.
The broad family resides in the Caribbean population of Santa Marta, Colombia. This curious news has led me to approach the birth data in Colombia to find an explanation for this fact that in other countries would be much more unusual.
In Spain few mothers are at 16, and first-time mothers are much more frequent at 30. In thirty, here we change diapers mothers, not grandmothers, something that Colombia and in other countries of Latin America is more frequent. In fact, looking at the ages of these women of each generation, we see that they all had their daughters very young.
In Colombia, the gross birth rate, which reflects the number of births per 1,000 inhabitants, is around 19, while in Spain it is around 10. mean maternity age in Spain it is one of the latest in Europe, while in Latin America that age falls considerably. And it is that the average age to have the first child is in half of the cases in Hispano-America less than 22 years.
Thus we have significant differences such as the average number of children in Colombia approaching four in rural areas, while in Spain it does not reach two. We speak in any case of very distant data and that make it possible for the generational meeting of up to six family members to be less rare in countries like Colombia, although without a doubt it has also had an echo in that country.
This also contributes to the increase in life expectancy, which makes the 95-year-old "trastarabuela" (a word not included in our dictionaries) happy to meet her newborn offspring.
Meanwhile, in Spain and in other countries it is much more complicated that this situation of multiple generational encounter occurs, and especially when more and more women do not have children.
Here it would be a great notion the fact that the birth of a baby will be added to form six generations that live together. A lot would have to change things for women to decide to give birth and maternity age a boost.
