Nowadays, more and more people decide to have children later in their life. What are the reasons? What are the effects on society and family life?

These days, there has been an increasing number of people choosing not to have babies in their twenties or even thirties. Some possibilities explaining

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decision as well as its impacts on both family life and society could be seen. Postponing parenthood could be attributed to the advances in medical fields which

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enabled young adults to have children based on their personal preferences.

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means that with the help of advanced science at the current time, age is not a barrier for the young to conceive. Unlike in the past, women were always encouraged to have children before their

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thirties

to ensure the well being and development of their offspring.

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, the rising expectations in

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arenthood of young adults may cause reluctance in having children at young ages. Young people have a tendency to think that only when they possess sufficient savings and acquire essential parenting skills will they be allowed to become parents, which places

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huge pressure on them.

As a result

, they seem to spend more years sustaining their finance and accumulating experience.

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trend has contributed to some changes in the population structure in some countries where women delay childbearing.

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population is one of the pressing problems that developing countries

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as the UK are confronting. Since the number of British people aged above sixty

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considerably larger than that of the young, the UK's labour market has experienced a shortage in staff over recent years.

In addition

,

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the chance of having children at old ages is relatively high, it is definitely worrisome that the babies of

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-time mothers aged above thirty-five are prone to Down syndrome and other diseases.

Therefore

, late motherhood could lead to more disabled children, which is not fair for the children themselves as well as the parents. To conclude, the decision on when to enter pregnancy comes from varied reasons in every case, including the development of science and people’s perspectives of growing children.

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has resulted in some adverse effects on the population and the welfare of the babies.