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This is a beautiful article, but I feel that it should be read as a chronicle of the author's life experience rather than an analysis on when to have your child
by gabs6973 4y ago
This is a beautiful article, but I feel that it should be read as a chronicle of the author's life experience rather than an analysis on when to have your children.
The age at which couples are having their children is Indeed increasing; this isn't necessarily a bad thing. As the author pointed out, parents are more likely to have time to spend with their children if they've already established a career/source of income. They'll automatically also have better resources to care for them (babysitter/schooling/literally everything else). On top of all that, they'll have more life experience, which should help in the education of their offspring.
Besides, what are the alternatives ? Having your children at a young age has the only major benefit of being young. And if your remain healthy throughout your life, I believe the benefit of being young remains irrelevant.
- michaelt 4y ago> On top of all that, they'll have more life experience, which should help in the education of their offspring. While an older person gains more years of life experience, their experience of youth becomes more and more outdated. I may know all about how to troubleshoot broken sound in DOS computer games, but I've never sent or received a 'nude selfie' in my life.
- EEMac 4y ago> I've never sent or received a 'nude selfie' in my life. Time to fix that.
- dcow 4y agoWhy shouldn't raising children be considered a worthy career? Why does society pretty much mandate dual income families? That’s what seems bleak to me. Having kids older is riskier for both women and the children. It’s not healthy. Society, if it wanted to prioritize the health of women, should be figuring out how to support the idea and reality that homemaking (whether father or mother who primarily engages in it) is a worthy career.