Today, many people want to get married and have children in their thirties rather than when they are younger. Is it a positive or negative development?

These days, more couples wed after their

third

decade of life unlike a few years back when

newly

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the newly

wedded were much younger. I believe that

this

is a negative trend due to the increasing cases of

subfertility

and

health

challenges seen among those in their thirties. Couples in their thirties who want to start bearing children are often faced with the complication of reduced fecundity. In other word, it may be

difficulty

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difficult

sometimes for

such

couples to have children. Recently, the Society for Family

Health

, a non-governmental organization in Nigeria, explained that advanced maternal age is associated with

subfertility

and it recommends that couples should start their family when they are in their twenties.

Thus

, in order to prevent

huge expenditure

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the huge expenditure

on assisted reproductive techniques, people are encouraged to marry and bear children early.

Furthermore

, younger couples do not often have much

health

challenges

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challenge

and

as a result

, they can better manage their families even if they have a challenging occupation. Older couples

on the other hand

, are faced with the onset of certain

health

problems which occur with advancing age

such

as hereditary diseases and hypertension. Due to these

health

challenges coupled with the desire for career advancement, managing a young family with children is usually stressful. If these ones marry when they were in their twenties, their children may be teenagers before the onset of their

health

limitations and it will be much easier to manage these children. In conclusion, I am of the view that couples should marry and start having children in their twenties when they are fertile and have less

health

problems.

This

is an important step toward ensuring a happy family life.