WHY PEOPLE ARE HAVING BABIES LATE IN LIFE An increasingly large amount of couples gave birth to their children late in life recently. This phenomenon, I believe, has something to do with the social changes and new generation’s conception about marriage. A variety of reasons are responsible for young couples’ late reproduction. First and foremost, the cost to bring up a young kid is dramatically high in recent years, which may result in the reluctance of having baby with spouse in early life. The daunting task to buy a house and pay the education fee in a big city get a lot of new-married away from keeping a child in very young. Secondly, recent years has witnessed a significant change in the conception of the purpose of marriage. From mere a need to reproduction to find a soul mate to enjoy life, is a great leap forward in social conception. Late reproduction of couples is a double-edged sword:on the one hand, couples are more mature, given they are older and much more experienced in dealing with daily life after marriage, which is a good news for new-born baby, at least, babies wont be bothered by their parents constantly quarrel annd fight about chores; on the other hand, having babies late in life can be detrimental to the society, due to the sacarity of labour and aging society caused by late reproduction. Thus, I think as a part of the society, young couples should be subservient to the well-being of the whole society, so we should not encourage young couples to have their children too late. It is also selfish to not give birth to new babies in a reasonable age.