The different in age between parents and their children has increased most recently.

Is this a positive or negative development?

A growing age difference observed between generations might has advantages and disadvantages. For
me, however, its negative aspects outweigh the positive sides.

The rising age gap (disparity), at first glance, could be beneficial for the children. Indeed, they could
obviously benefit from the financial stability of their middle-aged parents. That is to say, in that age
parents can most likely support their offspring and devote their whole life savings. In addition to
satisfying basic requirements including suitable house, nutritious meals and sufficient clothes for their
kids, these old parents usually would be able to offer a wide range of facilities. One of them could be
enrolling in the private school with luxury amenities and distinctive extra-curriculum programs such as
traveling abroad. Furthermore, they often allocate more time being with their family even programming
trips and birthday, in comparison with young busy couples.

However, the adverse impacts are more considerable. For one thing, with increasing age difference, the
disagreements between the two age groups can become wider, and this widening space can be filled
with misunderstanding. The main reason for this is that they brought up in entirely distinct social
condition in terms of time. Simply put, they have different set of values and lifestyle, for example,
despite our modern life, elderly people used to be respectful by youngers. They place particular
emphasis on their traditional stereotypes like remaining loyal to homemade food or formal clothes
instead of (in place of) enjoying delicious fast food, comfortable casual wear or even experiencing the
joy and excitement of innovative sport “parkour”. Technology is another scope for disagreement
(discrepancy) owning to the fact that today’s youth have strong incentive to get involved. With the
advent of latest one, mobile phone, the conflict has been increased even more than before since it is
usually the young people who teach their parent how to exercise recently-released applications. Main
reason is that generally old-people lack enough motivation to learn from their kids.

For another, early-onset loss of parental support is unavoidable in case of having aged parents.
Regarding to old-aged related disease such as heart attack, stroke and high blood pressure, children
need to take care of their frail parents. This means that they have to spend endless hours nursing. In my
own life, for example, when I just turned 20 my parents were in their mid-sixties. As a direct
consequence, my precious youth time, unfortunately, was full of the terrible memories behind the
mysterious twin doors of operating rooms being worry and nervous as well as struggling long nights at
the hospital. At the same time (timely) my peer group, however, enjoyed their youth time having fun
with their friends.

In conclusion, I feel that increasing the age difference between parents and their children is primarily
responsible for deep misunderstandings (long-running dispute) that might threat (compromise) family
integrity, which stems from different cultural and social environment and fast-paced digital world
(technological world). Therefore, tracing the root of this undesirable gap and find the practical solutions,
could beneficially remedy the situation.