Late Marriage In Modern Society

The percentage of late marriage has drastically increased in modern societies. There must be some reasons behind and this apprehensive phenomena has caused impacts to the families and the societies in different aspects. √

Men and women are getting married later in life because they are having an idea that early marriage is more likely to cause divorce. Early marriage is often related to young teenagers. Marriage is not as simple as doing mathematics at primary level, but it involves many areas which are beyond the maturity of a young teenagers. After getting married, there is a new responsibility for him and for her, he will be husband and she will be wife. Speaking about husband and wife, there are a lot of communication needed to be made in between two of them and it

The higher the age of a women the higher the risk of facing pregnancy problems. Having baby at higher age will not only bring negative effect to the mother but also affect the baby. The baby may suffer from brain damage, mental disorder and other illnesses which may cause the innocent child to have a miserable life in the future. If this unfortunate event occurs, when the child grows up, the parents are already aged, they are incapable of taking care of the child causing the child to be left abandoned. On the other hand, the generation gap exists between the late married couple and their children may have just caused communication problems (Yan 2013). Communication problems would be exaggerated when the child grows up. Children always have different ideas and points of view which usually not agreed by the adults as their learning environment is totally different from their parents. If the communication problem persist and has no solution, communication breakdown is very likely to occur. If a couple is planning to have a baby, it is not wise for both of them to get married too late.