Nowadays, it is becoming more and more popular for parents to beget their children when they are older, while in the past people tended to have more children and bear them as far as parents are still young. In my opinion, the situation is better now and there are some reasons why I think so.
Firstly, some time ago almost all of people were forced into marriage, even when they were just teenagers. Marriages of convenience were widespread and it seemed normal to find your children a spouse, marriage with whom will bring your family some benefits. However, now more and more people are choosing their significant others on their own and that search for their beloved ones takes some time – that is one of the reasons why today people get married not at such an early age, than they used to do, which causes people to beget children at a later age.
Secondly, nowadays almost everyone wants to receive education before getting married or even engaged. For modern teenagers and juveniles a university degree is way more important than a family, because with a doctorate or master’s degree you can get well-paid job and be able to provide yourself, which is thought to be essential before getting married or planning children.
In conclusion, I would like to admit that now the difference in age between children and parents is greater than it used to be due to the reasons that I have already mentioned and I think that this can show that people are more contented with their decisions about getting married and having children, which is pretty awesome. So, I suppose that the advantages of that outweigh the disadvantages, because the recent statistics show us that the benchmark of general people happiness has incresed over the past two centuries.