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It's definately more important for both of you to be on the same page, than to be older.

I'm 28 today and Dh is 32. We started 1 1/2 yrs ago and were the youngest in our class as well. But we were somewhat settled in our life. We'd been married 2 yrs when we started classes and had infertility issues for all of those 2 yrs. We went on a cruise a month before classes and returned to news that we wouldn't be having biochildren. On our cruise we discussed what we'd do if we got that news. We'd always wanted to adopt from DH's country. And it just happened that our connections (our cat sitter who was adopted) led us to a fost/adopt program.

In the last year and a half we've had to make a lot of compromises, sacrifices (no out of country vacations, no more late nights in the city), but we look at it like this, we've had our time to have fun and be newly weds. So now we have a house and 2 adopted sons, 1 foster daughter we're hoping to adopt and have fostered 9 children in all.

But without DH & I both wanting this it would have been a complete nightmare. In fostering you really need a supportive husband/partner/family.