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Nowadays, more and more people decide to have children later in their life. What are the reasons? Do the advantages of this outweigh disadvantages?

#people #children #life #outweigh
In my opinion, the given statement stands partially true. Many of the married members of any family, prefer to have
children
 at
their
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 early
ages
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. Over the period, the decisions are changed. There could be many reasons for taking
such
 decisions.
For example
, the
raise
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 in the cost of living. Due to increased prices of all the basic needs, people are finding it difficult in raising them, providing them
the
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 basic
education
, and taking care of them. I believe
this
 is the major reason behind taking
such
decision
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. Talking about the advantages and disadvantages, there is a wide scope for advantages being outweighed. Planning for
children
 after
certain
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 period of time, from the marriage day,
it
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gives the couple/family a lot of time, to think about the future.
Also
 in laying a path for their (
children
) lives. Parents will be able to plan according to their financial status, balancing the requirements. It
given
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 an advantage of planning their
education
, the best institution to chose, and
also
a
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strong support with some savings made. Talking about the disadvantages of having
children
 at
early
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 age, it becomes a big challenge in taking up
such
 big responsibility. One should become more
stabalized
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stabilized
stabilised
 in terms of finance, and ready to spend a lot on
education
 and other expenses. Being a family of 5 members, with 2 siblings, I really found it very difficult for my parents in rising us. Since
,
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 they were not financially stable, and they had to make many debts for providing us
all
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 the basic needs like clothes, shelter (rented house),
education
fee
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, etc. It took them almost 20 years for
them
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to clear all those debts.
Hence
 I believe, and
advice
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 to the point of having
children
 at right time, when
couple
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the couple
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 are really ready to take the responsibility.
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