HAVING CHILDREN LATER IN LIFE
It's a general trend that as more women
get an education and enter the
workforce, they marry and start having
kids later in life.
Pros and cons
Because a woman's fertility begins to
decrease at age 32 and decreases more
sharply after age 37, it will likely be more
difficult for her to conceive at 40 than it
would have been when she was 30,
though every woman will have a different
experience.
Miscarriages and a number of
complications to pregnancy, including
gestational diabetes and high blood
pressure, are more common for women
over 35.
But a woman's choice to wait to have
kids offers important benefits to society,
too. When women establish themselves in
their careers before having kids, it can
have long-term positive implications for
their kids and their employees.
Getting an education and making more
money raises a woman's socioeconomic
status, so a working-class mother can
potentially raise middle-class kids if she
waits to start a family.
Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/why-delaying-parenthood-and-having-kids-later-is-a-big-deal-2015-6
SYNONYMS
o to start having kids later in life » to wait to have kids
o to enter the workforce = to become a
part of the population that provides goods
and services in exchange for a wage or
salary: tham gia lực lượng lao động
o fertility /fərˈtɪləti/ (n) = the ability to
produce babies: khả năng sinh sản
o to conceive /kənˈsiːv/ (v) = to become
pregnant: thụ thai, có thai
o miscarriage /ˈmɪskærɪdʒ/ (n) = an early,
unintentional end to a pregnancy when
the baby is born too early and dies
because it has not developed enough: sẩy
thai
o complication /ˌkɑːmplɪˈkeɪʃn/ (n) = an
extra medical problem that makes it more
difficult to treat an existing illness: biến
chứng
o pregnancy /ˈpreɡnənsi/ (n) = the state
of being pregnant: sự mang thai
o to have long-term positive
implications for …: có ý nghĩa tích cực
lâu dài đối với …
o to raise someone’s socioeconomic
status: nâng cao địa vị kinh tế xã hội của
ai đó
o working-class /ˌwɜːrkɪŋ ˈklæs/ (adj) =
from or connected with the social class
whose members do not have much money
or power and are usually employed to do
manual work: thuộc tầng lớp lao động
o middle-class /ˌmɪdl ˈklæs/ (adj) =
connected with the middle social class:
thuộc tầng lớp trung lưu