Hello everyone, I'm a tomato mom!
Do you want to have a second child? In recent years, it has been a topic of discussion, the country has come up with countermeasures, and even the three children have been opened, but we find that the people around us seem to be a little indifferent. The second child does not want to give birth, the third child is needless to say, the elderly mother who gives birth to a child is also everywhere, and the number of families who have two children is decreasing year by year, and the number of families who have three children is simply even smaller.
However, according to 2021, the net population growth of the mainland is 480,000 people, and we ordinary people seem to be quite a lot at first glance. But for this data, I want to make a comparison to let everyone feel what is the gap.
In the 1980s, the year with the lowest net population growth on the mainland was 1980, then the net population growth figure for this year was 11.63 million, the highest year was 1987, and the net population growth was 17.93 million.
In the 1990s, the year with the largest net population growth was 1990, with a net population growth figure of 16.29 million, and the year with the lowest net population growth was 1999, with a net population growth of 10.25 million.
The parallel line of time pushes forward little by little, from 2000 to 2018, during which the largest figure for net population growth was in 2012, with a net population growth of 10.06 million, and the lowest year was 2018, with a net population growth of 5.3 million.
Since the founding of the people's republic, the three years with the lowest net population growth except for special years are 4.76 million in 2019, 2.04 million in 2020, and 480,000 in 2021.
This data looks a bit shocking, in the penultimate year, the net growth in 2021 is 480,000 people, compared with the net increase of 4.28 million in 2019, a shrinkage of nearly 10 times!
Xian Langping, a well-known domestic economist, once called for a second child for the family, if the mainland family is still only willing to have one child, then it will surely usher in a more severe population cliff decline. In another 50 years, the continent will go from a country of 1.4 billion people directly to a country of 600 million people.
Some people say that if everyone has eugenics and fertility, the per capita resources will rise, which should be a good thing. In fact, everyone's thinking is not right. People are reluctant to have children, which will have a very significant impact on our socio-economic development and demographic changes.
By 2021, the elderly over 65 years old in the mainland have accounted for 14.2% of the national population, according to international standards, if the proportion of the elderly over 65 years old reaches 7%, even if it is an aging society, reaching 14% is deeply aging. The future development of the social economy, the development of national defense construction, and the space for scientific and technological progress will all be greatly affected.
Although the reduction in the new population is harmful to society, but now the desire to have children is still low, why are today's young people reluctant to have children? From the perspective of our ordinary family, it is mainly caused by the following reasons. If these problems are solved under the common problems of the national society and individuals, I believe that our fertility rate will slowly increase!
First of all, high housing prices are the biggest obstacle to having a second child
Recently, house prices have indeed declined, and many families like us who just need it have begun to want to buy a house. Some of our friends around us are going to have children after buying a house, because they finally have their own home.
The reason why the house and the child are so closely linked is inseparable from the traditional concepts of our older generation. Without their own house, there is no home of their own, how dare they have children?
So, when the young man could not afford to buy a house in his lifetime, he simply gave up the struggle, marriage and many things. High housing prices make young people "lie flat", the pressure to have children and raise children is too great, they can't afford it, and they simply don't have children.
Secondly, the change in young people's concept of marriage is the reason for the decline in the birth rate of the first and second children.
In the past, in our traditional concept, "no filial piety has three, and no queen is greater." Now, most young people and even the elderly feel that as long as they live their own lives, the affairs of the younger generations are not willing to interfere. The young people are even more, and they have done the "Dinks". In the past, it was three or five births, but now one is not willing to give birth, and the birth rate has of course plummeted.
Finally, the anxiety of children's education is also the main reason why everyone is reluctant to have children.
There are many people who like children very much, but they dare not have more children, and it is impossible to afford to have one, so how dare they have a second child? Why is it so expensive to raise children, because parents' educational anxiety and the actual education volume are the capital of education costs.
The best private kindergartens, key primary schools, junior high schools, high schools, parents for the quality of their children's education is getting higher and higher, investment in materials and energy is also more and more. When we see that other people's children are receiving elite education, parents' educational anxiety is getting more and more serious, and the real education volume begins. Giving birth to one feels that education is not good, how can there be a second or third child?
I am a second-born mother, both children and daughters, although it is hard work, but also enjoy the various tastes of life. Housing prices, education, work pressure, the cost of living, the pressure at first is very large, but as the children grow up, all this is getting better. So although the front is hard, but the back is still very sweet, so everyone has the conditions to have a second and third child, just take advantage of the young to give birth, you think?