The Influence of Older Childbearing on Family Economic Status
With the change of society and the change of people's conception of fertility, more and more couples choose to postpone childbearing, which leads to the increasing phenomenon of elderly childbearing. However, elder childbearing not only challenges individual health, but also has an important impact on family economic status. This article will elaborate the impact of elderly childbearing on the family's economic situation from the aspects of children's education expenses, family income reduction, pension problems and follow-up care of children.
1、 Increase in children's education expenses
Older childbearing means that the growth period of children is relatively close to the retirement period of their parents. Therefore, the education expenses of children will become a big burden on the family economy. Before children go to school, families need to provide them with better pre-school education and training, which requires a certain amount of time and financial resources. After the children go to school, in addition to the basic costs such as tuition and book fees, the elderly parents may also face additional tuition fees to make up for their lack of educational knowledge. These will have a certain impact on the family's economic situation.
In addition, with the growth of children, older parents also need to provide them with better educational resources, such as participating in various interest classes, training classes and overseas study tours, which require additional expenses. Therefore, the elderly childbearing makes the family's education expenditure increase, and brings challenges to the family's economic situation.
2、 Decrease in household income
Older childbearing usually means that parents need to continue working from middle age to old age to ensure that the family has enough income to support the growth and education of children. However, with the growth of age, parents' working ability and physical strength will gradually decline, and they may not be able to work as hard as they were when they were young. This may lead to a decrease in household income.
In addition, because of their older age, older parents may need more time and energy to take care of their own health problems, which will also reduce their investment in work. In addition, with the growth of age, some elderly parents may encounter occupational discrimination and find it difficult to find suitable jobs, which will also have a negative impact on family income.
Therefore, the elderly childbearing may lead to the reduction of family income and increase the burden of family economy.
3、 Elderly care
Older childbearing also brings pension problems. Because parents are relatively older when they give birth at an advanced age, when children reach adulthood, parents have entered the stage of old age. This means that elderly parents need to consider their own pension issues while raising their own children.
Older parents may need more financial resources to meet their needs in medical care, nursing homes and other aspects after retirement. However, their children often have not formed independent economic capacity at this time, and it is difficult to provide adequate support for their parents. This has brought some pressure on the family's economic situation.
Therefore, elderly childbearing makes families need to consider the growth of children and the pension of parents at the same time, which has a certain impact on the family's economic situation.
4、 Follow up care of children
Older childbearing also poses challenges to the follow-up care of children. Because parents are older, their physical functions may not be as healthy as when they were young, and they may not be able to provide long-term care and support for their children as young parents do.
When children enter adolescence or adulthood, they may face more confusion in life and growth, and need spiritual and material support from parents. However, older parents may not be able to provide adequate support to their children, which may have an impact on their children's development.
In addition, the life span of elderly parents is relatively short. When the children are still young or just adult, the parents may have died, which will bring great challenges to the children's life and growth.
Summary:
The elderly childbearing has an important impact on the family's economic situation. The increase of children's education costs, the decrease of family income, pension problems and follow-up care for children have all brought challenges to the family economy. Therefore, before deciding to give birth at an advanced age, couples should give full consideration to their own economic conditions and abilities and make wise choices to ensure the stability of the family economy and the good growth of their children.
