Since the implementation of the basic national policy of family planning in 1970s, China has been advocating late marriage and late childbearing. The so-called late marriage means delaying marriage for more than three years on the basis of the legal age of marriage (20 years for women and 22 years for men). That is, women are 23 years old and men are over 25 years old. Women who give birth to their first child at the age of 24 and above are late.

The marriage age stipulated in China's marriage law is fundamental.

According to China's vast territory and different customs, it is not appropriate to raise the marriage age too high. The legal age for marriage is the minimum age for marriage, not the ideal age for marriage, nor does it mean that every young person must get married at this age. Because of this, the Marriage Law clearly puts forward "encouraging late marriage and late childbearing". This is considered from the population situation and reproductive physiological function of our country, so there is no contradiction between late marriage and late childbearing and the legal age for marriage. The key is to correctly understand and handle the relationship between them.

Late marriage and late childbearing are conducive to prenatal and postnatal care. Physiologically speaking, young people in China are generally not fully mature until they are 23 to 25 years old. Before this age, although young men and women have the physiological conditions for marriage and childbearing, the whole body organs and tissues are still in the development stage, the bones and bodies are still growing, and the abstract thinking ability of the brain has not reached a high level. Giving birth at this time is not only bad for eugenics, but also bad for the health of young couples. Therefore, couples who have not married late must pay close attention to late childbearing and must not give birth prematurely or blindly. Even couples who reach the age of late marriage don't have to rush to have children as soon as they get married. Because the life of a newly married family has a process of adjustment, adaptation and construction.

From the perspective of eugenics, if you want to have healthy and intelligent children, you must choose the best time for pregnancy and delivery. According to statistics, women aged 24-29 have the highest natural delivery rate and the largest number of healthy babies. Appropriate late childbearing is beneficial to the country, society, families, individuals and future generations. Some young couples are naive, neither fully prepared psychologically nor have a solid economic foundation. Of course, it is difficult for them to bear the responsibility of raising children, which is very unfavorable to the development and growth of future generations.

Late marriage and late childbearing are beneficial to study and work. Young people around the age of 20 are the most energetic and curious. If you get married and have children too early, it will inevitably distract your energy and affect your study and work.

Late marriage and childbearing are conducive to family happiness. Young people around the age of 20 are not mature enough and lack of life experience, and they are often not good at dealing with some contradictions, thus affecting family harmony. If we postpone the marriage and childbearing period appropriately and wait until we have certain professional knowledge, work ability, economic savings and life experience before we get married, our family will be more stable and our life will be happier.

Late marriage and late childbearing are conducive to controlling population growth. If a young woman marries and has children at the age of 20, she can have grandchildren at the age of 40, great-grandchildren at the age of 60, 100 can have great-grandchildren, and 100 will have five generations. If you get married and have children at the age of 25, you can postpone giving birth to grandchildren until the age of 50, seeing great-grandchildren at the age of 75, giving birth to great-grandchildren at 100, and giving birth to four generations at 100. This means that our country can have fewer births 1 generation in a century. At present, our province is facing the fourth baby boom since the founding of the People's Republic of China. Since the birth peak in our city last year, the population born this year will continue to climb. If most young people get married and have children as soon as they reach the legal age for marriage, the population situation will be even more severe. In the future, a series of problems such as children's nursery, school and employment will be highlighted, which is not good for the country and the country. It can be said that late marriage and late childbearing are related to the overall situation of modernization, the grand goal of building a well-off society in an all-round way ahead of schedule, and the vital interests of the broad masses of the people.

To sum up, young people in the new era should actively respond to the call of the party and the state, consciously implement late marriage and late childbirth, family planning, fewer births and better births, and make contributions to the coordinated development and sustainable development of population, nature, society and environment. the Chen Dynasty