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People nowadays tend to have children at older ages. Do the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages?

#people #children #ages #outweigh
Today, people like having
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a child
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child
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children
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 later in life in many countries
especially
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 in Iran. I think
this
 subject can have advantages and disadvantages. In the past, people would get married fairly young that
it
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was
natural
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 step. Most of the women was not working outside, so they had more
times
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 and they had
children
 earlier.
Besides
 that, the economic situation was much better. When men and women have
children
 earlier, maybe they could have a closer relationship with them. In
this
 situation,
parents
 spend more time and patience
to raise
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 their
children
.
Although
 science has advanced, sometimes having
children
 at an older age can be difficult.
For example
, Infertility problems can occur and not be solved. Nowadays,
parents
 have
children
 later for several
reason
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. It is one of the most important of them, bad economic and social conditions of society. Many girls and boys get married late because they are studying and working. Today, most
of
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the
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women work outside the home and
have
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 not enough
times
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time
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 for raising
children
, so they should think of a way to reduce the loneliness of their
children
 many times at home. Having a child in old age always may not be bad, because younger
parents
 are more likely to be less experienced.
Children
 need a lot of facilities, so not every
parents
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 are ready to have
children
 and they prefer to have
children
 at older ages.
As a result
, I think if Infertility problems do not occur, having a child in old age is not bad, because educating
children
 need more experience and facilities .
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