In the group, I saw a two-session news:
Huh? Unmarried, childbearing? How many meanings? The group was full of married mothers with one or two children, and everyone was discussing hotly:
How to be born? Where do I get the "seeds"?
Assisted reproduction is not open to single women, right?
Want a child, don't want a husband, just right!
In order to increase the fertility rate, there is no one left.
In fact, I think that reproductive rights are originally one of the rights of women, if this is to protect women's rights and interests, it is understandable, but the starting point is to improve women's willingness to have children is a bit ironic.
In the heat of the two weeks, "spawning" is one of the hottest words of the year, and such dazzling "three-child birth" proposals are emerging in an endless stream. In order to let everyone have three children, the deputies of the two sessions gave advice and suggestions, which was simply "heartbroken."
There are proposals to #Three children go to kindergarten for free #
Netizens are afraid, can parents still care about the money to go to kindergarten? No one or two where the three came from? Shouldn't all kids be free? Just give three children free?
The free medicine in kindergartens is not effective enough, and there are proposals to #give the third child extra points for the college entrance examination #
"In addition to the nine-year compulsory education for the third child, the three-year education fee of the high school is also exempted, and the third child can be rewarded with 10 to 20 points according to regional differences."
Netizens are afraid, the middle school entrance examination diversion is so powerful, can you go to high school or two say... Why should I have a one-child to compare the score of the college entrance examination with the three children of others, and it is right not to give birth!
There are proposals to increase the individual tax threshold and give birth subsidies to families with three children #
"Minor children aged 0-18 are deducted or subsidized at the level of 1,000 yuan per person per month (automatically adjusted year by year according to the price level and development level).
Netizens are afraid, not yet to the starting point, okay? Let's talk about wages, overtime pay, and working hours. 1,000 yuan is also a drop in the bucket for raising a child, first solve the discrimination in the female workplace...
There are also proposals to provide affordable housing indicators for families with three children and give priority to the purchase of housing #
Netizens are afraid, the first and second children have no housing pressure? Those who have the conditions to have three children are not bad this little money The poor money does not want to give birth to a child!
There is also a more bizarre suggestion #45-year-old early flexible retirement is conducive to reducing late marriage and late childbearing to alleviate the lack of births #
belch... Didn't you just talk about flexible resources to encourage delayed retirement a few days ago?
Under each of these proposals, there are a large number of comments, and many are even intimidated by netizens to turn off the message function.
"Giving birth" seems to be the hottest keyword of this year's two sessions. And the reason why there are so many proposals is because the country is really in a hurry. Let's take a look at the following data:
According to the data of the seventh census in 2021, China's natural fertility rate in 2020 should only be about 1.0-1.1, which is much lower than Japan's fertility rate of 1.3-1.4, which should be said to be the lowest in the world.
The latest national population data released by the National Bureau of Statistics this year shows that the birth rate of Chinese in 2021 is only 7.52%, and the birth population has reached a record low.
If there is no more birth, China will disappear not only the demographic dividend, but also a series of serious problems such as social aging and economic slowdown.
However, young people don't want to have a baby!
Because it's too difficult to raise a first child and a second child now. Some time ago, the "2022 China Fertility Cost Report" was released, and I wrote an article to talk about the cost of parenting: it was refreshed again! How much does it cost to have a child?
Economists such as Liang Jianzhang have concluded from statistics that raising children from the age of 0 to 17 years old has an average cost of 969,000 yuan nationwide, and the number of first-tier cities is more than one million.
This data is only an average, and the messages of our backstage mothers are already too telling the truth, far more than this number:
At such a high cost of raising a child, encouraging fertility advice for three children is a drop in the bucket.
Moreover, the more important thing is the problem of childbirth in China because there are no three children? That's because I didn't have a first child or a second child!
Not long ago, economist Ren Zeping's strange view: "Don't expect to be born after 90s and 00s" and "We must seize the time window of 75-85 years to be born". Although extreme, it also illustrates the problem.
This is the reason why the proposals of the deputies to the two sessions are concentrated on the birth of three children?! You tell me?
But seriously, you can't catch this sheep after the 80s, but you can be energetic!
After Ren Zeping's suggestion was issued, it attracted collective complaints from the post-80s:
"When I was a child, I had fewer brothers and sisters, I asked for money in primary school, and after graduating from college, I met the most expensive decade of house prices, and now I am nearly 40 years old, and I am also asked to have a second child and a third child... The post-80s generation is too difficult! ”
"If a husband and wife have only one child, they should have four old people above and three children below, and they should be exhausted and pulled down."
Bald, useless.
I would like to suggest that the deputies to the two sessions earnestly listen to the voices of the broad masses of the people. If you really want to solve the problem of low fertility rate, it is better to give some real policy support to first- and second-child families to help everyone reduce the cost of parenting and let everyone have more time, energy and financial resources.
In this way, there may be no tuition fee waiver, and everyone is willing to have another one. Besides, young people are frightened by the cost of raising and don't even consider marriage, one child and two children do not dare to have children, where are the three children?
In fact, there are also such voices at the two sessions that can really reduce the pressure on families with children and promote fertility.
For example, housing subsidies, the construction of sound childcare institutions, and so on.
Women's willingness to have children is low, in addition to the high cost of parenting, but also because of the awakening of women's consciousness, the cost of having children is too disproportionate to the income, and more women will give up this matter.
Therefore, in addition to reducing the cost of parenting through policies, the care and support for women is also an important part.
For example, there are proposals to force men to take maternity leave for one month, so that men can participate more in childcare, and let more people realize that childcare is not just a woman's responsibility.
Another example is to reduce discrimination in women's workplaces, age discrimination at the age of 35 in the workplace, and build a fertility support program so that childbearing is not just a matter for women.
In addition, the Law on the Protection of Women's Rights and Interests has been improved, and the state has borne the loss of employment of women of childbearing age by enterprises.
If you really want to improve women's willingness to have children, it is better to think of more such tricks, so that women are not so lonely and hard when switching between the workplace, marriage, family, self-various fields, and various identities.
What do you think, let's talk about it.
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