These days couples decide to have children later in their life. Do you agree or disagree with this statement? How is it affecting the family life and society?

Essay topics:

These days couples decide to have children later in their life. Do you agree or disagree with this statement? How is it affecting the family life and society?

In recent decades, there is a phenomenon that couples tend to have their first child five to ten years after their marriage. I personally believe that people nowadays would rather have child as late as possible due to career or other personal considerations as will now be discussed.

Firstly, the cost of raising a child is significantly high and some young couples are not ready to bear the burden yet. Statistics have shown that the expenditure of raising a child to his or her 18s would require more than two hundred thousand US dollars. Therefore, it is the reason why people would like to have children later in their life when they are financially stable.

Secondly, there is a tradeoff between having a baby and career development which is especially faced by many women. Traditionally, the mother role of the child have to devote most of her time taking care of her daughter or son. This is definitely an obstacle to her career development. When people decide to postpone their plan of pregnancy to 5-10 years, they can take the advantage of this time to get promotion in their careers.

However, people at their late 30s may have various health problems such as infertility that prevent them from being pregnant. Medical studies have indicated that the chance of getting pregnant in their late 30s decreased dramatically compared with their 20s. Although, people have different reasons to postpone their plan of having child, they should bear the risks of having a child in their late life.

Votes
Average: 6.2 (5 votes)
This essay topic by users
Post date Users Rates Link to Content
2013-02-17 william00100 62 view
2013-01-02 Do Van Trai 80 view
Essay Categories
Essays by user william00100 :

Comments

flaws:
No. of Words: 255 350
No. of Characters: 1222 1500
No. of Different Words: 151 200
Sentence Length SD: 4.342 7.5

Your language is great! Try to put more words (around 350) to get higher marks. and read those top list essays to get ideas:
http://www.testbig.com/essay-categories/ielts

You have the potential to get mark 8.0.

Attribute Value Ideal
Score: 6.0 out of 9
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 12 15
No. of Words: 255 350
No. of Characters: 1222 1500
No. of Different Words: 151 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.996 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.792 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.538 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 81 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 58 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 39 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 22 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.25 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 4.342 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.417 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.369 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.615 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.149 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5