雅思范文：晚生孩子

 　　8340 谢振礼雅思范文：晚生孩子

　　2012年12月8日IELTS真题 China

　　类似2012年7月雅思考试India真题

　　猫头鹰在线写作实验室Late Parenting

　　中国真题回忆：

　　1 Similar Topic>In some countries around the world, men and women are laving children later in life.  What are the reasons for this development?  What are the effects on society and family life? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

　　2 Similar Topic>Today both males and females are having babies at an older age.  Why? Is this a positive or negative development on society and family? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

　　印度真题回忆：

　　3 Similar Topic>Nowadays people are becoming parents later in life.  Some think it is not a good development for the family and for the country.  Do you agree or disagree with it?  Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

　　实验范文重播《Example Writing》: By Jeenn Lee Hsieh

　　Parenting may be as late as possible, but not later.  Research shows that by the age of 30, a woman's chances of conceiving begin to dwindle¹. There are advantages to having children young, although these days life is rarely that simple.  The argument is that, if people want children at all, it is better to start as early as possible for the development of the family and the country.

　　Good or bad, late parenting is a new fashion.  Despite cases related to unwanted teenage pregnancies², many people choose to become parents later in life.  This social mainstream³ is particularly obvious among people of the middle class in most developed countries.  It is clear enough that many women are putting off babies for career and financial reasons.  Besides, if people are planning a one-child or two-child family, there is indeed no such a hurry to be 'in the family way' like those old-fashioned women a couple of generations ago.  No wonder that people prefer to wait until they think they are 'ready' to become parents, no matter how late it might be or what could happen as a result.

　　Relatively⁴, the consequences are more negative than positive, not just for the family but also for the country.  Generally speaking, late parenthood would mean a surplus of old people and not enough workers.  This is likely to stymie⁵ the country's economy.  In contrast, more teenage mothers would mean a population--economic--boom.  Based on this presumption⁶, women should finish having their families when they are younger (than 30) and then have more years of employment ahead of them.  As expected, their children would also sooner come into the labor⁷ force and add to the national economic growth.

　　In sum, there seem to be alarm bells on late parenting because this could benefit neither the development of the family nor the society in the economic context.  While the decision to become parents later in life is personal, even realistic; the time for a woman to get pregnant is certainly not 'forever'.  In parenting, it is one thing that modern people do not desire having one too many, but it is quite another to be too late to become parents for at least once.

　　(Essay created by Jeenn Lee Hsieh, [email protected]  )

1 dwindle   

v.逐渐变小（或减少）

参考例句：

• The factory's workforce has dwindled from over 4,000 to a few hundred.工厂雇员总数已经从4,000多人减少到几百人。
• He is struggling to come to terms with his dwindling authority.他正努力适应自己权力被削弱这一局面。

2 pregnancies   

怀孕，妊娠( pregnancy的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Since the wartime population needed replenishment, pregnancies were a good sign. 最后一桩倒不失为好现象，战时人口正该补充。
• She's had three pregnancies in four years. 她在四年中怀孕叁次。

3 mainstream   

n.（思想或行为的）主流；adj.主流的

参考例句：

• Their views lie outside the mainstream of current medical opinion.他们的观点不属于当今医学界观点的主流。
• Polls are still largely reflects the mainstream sentiment.民调还在很大程度上反映了社会主流情绪。

4 relatively   

adv.比较...地，相对地

参考例句：

• The rabbit is a relatively recent introduction in Australia.兔子是相对较新引入澳大利亚的物种。
• The operation was relatively painless.手术相对来说不痛。

5 stymie   

v.妨碍，阻挠

参考例句：

• Companies have been stymied by the length of time it takes to reach an agreement.由于耗时过长，各公司一直未能达成协议。
• Relief efforts have been stymied in recent weeks by armed gunmen.最近几周的救援工作一直受到武装分子的阻挠。

6 presumption   

n.推测，可能性，冒昧，放肆，[法律]推定

参考例句：

• Please pardon my presumption in writing to you.请原谅我很冒昧地写信给你。
• I don't think that's a false presumption.我认为那并不是错误的推测。

7 labor   

n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦

参考例句：

• We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
• He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。