NOWADAYS, MORE AND MORE PEOPLE DECIDE TO HAVE CHILDREN LATER IN THEIR LIFE. DO THE ADVANTAGES OF THİS TREND OUTWEIGH THE DISADVANTAGES?

A higher number of people today choose to have

children

much later in their

life

, and the world remains divided when expressing good or bad about the

trend

. I,

however

, agree that the advantages of the statement made earlier outweigh the disadvantages. The main plus side of

this

trend

is that having

children

later would allow

parents

to prepare themselves better to provide the necessary resources to improve the juvenile's quality of living, which is more important than the main disadvantage here, which is -

parents

may get too old to enjoy

life

with their kids. In a world that has become a lot more expensive to live in, having an ample amount of resources at hand to be able to support the newborn's future is key. In order to achieve that, many

parents

wish to take up a higher workload at their jobs, and power through occupational toil to save up enough money. Sadly, there is only so much money that can accrue within a particular time frame and if a

child

is born

while

the struggle to save up enough is on,

then

the burden would become manifold, negatively impacting both the

parents

and the

child

. Considering

this

argument, giving birth later in

life

, when the

parents

would have laid aside sufficient funds, seems to be the ideal solution. Perhaps

this

view is now so widely accepted and even successful which is why many studies have reported that

children

of older

mothers

are able to stay within the education system much longer and afford to go to expensive universities more easily than their peers born to younger

mothers

. Opponents of the

trend

may now argue that parenthood and memories contribute largely to enhancing a

child

's quality of

life

too. Conceiving late in

life

would inevitably make the mother much older than some others with

children

of the same age. Following the logic that energy seeps out of our body with age, those against

this

trend

contend that having older

parents

would prevent the

child

from being able to enjoy certain adventurous activities in

life

and create fun and quaint memories for them to happily reminisce on in their future.

While

this

may sound convincing to some extent, there are no real statistics proving that older

mothers

and fathers cannot engage in thrilling physical activities with their

children

. In fact, even if a woman was to give birth at the latest possible age

while

it is biologically feasible, it would not make her significantly older than other

mothers

and

thus

would not render her much more fatigued as a parent than her younger counterparts either.

To sum up

,

while

there are two sides to every coin,

this

essay argues that the advantages of having a

child

later in

life

far outweigh the main disadvantage of the same.

While

this

may make the

parents

slightly older and as opponents put it, slightly more incapable of enjoying

life

with their

child

physically,

this

is not a proven fact. The main advantage of having ample resources to make the

child

's future more smooth sailing ,

however

, has been supported through research before , which makes it much stronger than its supposed downside.