Today, many couples decide to have birth later. Causes? Effects?

Parenting is an intense job that not many couples are willing to take. In recent years young couples, more often than not, opt to bore a

child

at a later age when they are more financially and emotionally stable to cope with

such

task.

This

essay will discuss what motivates parents to wait to have a

child

and what are the effects of

this

in society. There are mainly two reasons that cause couples to delay birth. The

first

one is money. Having a baby in the early years of a relationship can, and most definitely will,

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a lot of pressure on the parents who,

therefore

, will work more hours in order to cope with the responsibilities of

such

task.

For instance

, we all know a couple or two who had an unplanned

child

and are struggling financially. And that struggle leads us to the

second

reason couples are willing to wait, emotional balance. It has to do with the simple fact that the older we get the better we are at dealing with certain stressful situations;

thus

, waiting a couple of years to bore a baby gives us the benefit of emotional intelligence and knowledge. To illustrate

this

phenomenon better, in recent studies researchers showed that couples who wait to have kids are less likely to file for divorce in the

first

five years of marriage. That, per se, is a convincing argument why it is worth waiting. That being said, we can assume that there will be an impact

as a result

of couples waiting to have a

child

. And that impact will be ageing of the population. The more we wait to have kids the more we increase the age gap between generations. And some countries are already dealing with the issues of an older population who rely on the government or retirement funds.

That is

the result of a system that was planned centuries ago that will

consequently

collapse in the future when the age gap will be even greater.

For example

, in Japan, almost eighty per cent of the population is over sixty years old.

Therefore

, a lot of pressure is put on the shoulders of the younger working-class generation.

Consequently

making them work to exhaustion and suffer from depression or stress.

Thus

, with the above in mind, it is understandable the positive impact that waiting to birth an infant has on the parent's life.

However

, the consequences of

this

wait can be the ordeal of the

next

generation.