Recently, a marriage and love platform released the latest survey report on the concept of marriage and love - the "Report on the Fertility Concept of The Unmarried Population" (hereinafter referred to as the "Report"). From the aspects of fertility concept, parenting point of view, cognitive impact, etc., the "Report" analyzes people's fertility cognition and choice in the change of social marriage and love thinking through in-depth research on marriage and fertility among non-marital people, and provides the latest reference for the majority of non-marital groups.
Yangzi Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter Xu Yuanyuan
Get married and have children? Eighty percent of women have to choose for themselves
Under the traditional Chinese concept, marriage and childbearing are the inevitable way for the family and even the family to continue, in which women play an indispensable role. With the development of the economy, the role of women in social development has become more and more prominent, and "reproductive freedom" has become women's right to choose, and they have begun to express their voices in fertility. The "Report" shows that 86% of women who are not married believe that childbearing is a right rather than an obligation, and they can choose to have children or not to have children, accounting for more than 22 percentage points of men.
In the eyes of many people, children are not only the crystallization of love, but also have the symbolic significance of marriage consummation. However, with the change of the concept of marriage and love, more and more women believe that happiness is the key criterion for measuring this marriage. For this reason, only 32% of unmarried women agree with the idea that "marriages with children are perfect".
It is worth noting that for women, childbearing has an important impact on life and work. Due to physiological problems, 82% of non-married men and 77% of non-married women believe that the ideal age for women to have children is before the age of 30.
But in the workplace, this age stage is the rising period of career. For independent and career-seeking women, childbearing is bound to give up part of the career and spend energy on children, resulting in many women having to be cautious about fertility.
As the report shows, 71% of women set their childbearing time on 1-3 years after marriage, but only 53% of women are willing to have children, and 37% are hesitant.
For the hesitant non-marital group, they have put the "relative income steadily rising" as the first element in considering whether to have children, followed by personal energy and personal body. It can be seen that the economic level and personal energy are still important factors for the fertility considerations of the unmarried group.
Refuse "widowhood parenting", 50% of women are not "full-time mothers"
The birth of a child, from pregnancy, pregnancy to childbirth, in the case of feeding, education, care, etc., in addition to the expenditure of economic costs, there is also a lot of energy consumption of both husband and wife. Therefore, women want men to take the initiative to assume a reasonable division of labor. More than 70% of women believe that it is necessary to agree in advance with their partners on the division of labor in raising children; but less than 40% of men who hold the same view, and 30% think it is not necessary.
It can be seen that the concept of "men working, women running the family" still affects many men, who take the initiative to shoulder the burden of making money in the family, and hope that women can focus on the family.
Experts on the emotions of Century Jiayuan said that in family parenting, the lack of fatherhood is a very common phenomenon in Chinese families, resulting in "widowed parenting" becoming an important concern for women's fertility. In particular, the status of women in social development is becoming more and more prominent, the traditional family division of labor model has changed, nearly 50% of unmarried women and 30% of women with a history of marriage, unwilling to give up their jobs for their children, choose to become full-time mothers.
In fact, the emergence of widowed parenting is not only a subjective problem of men, but also a helplessness from the pressure of work and life. In view of this problem, the support for childbirth is not only for women in the workplace to give "extended maternity leave" and "birth subsidies", but also needs supporting social policy support to reduce the concern about "widowed parenting".
In recent years, the state has successively introduced birth incentive policies, such as women's maternity leave, male paternity leave, female employees' maternity leave wages, birth insurance and so on. However, the introduction of fertility policies and incentives has not reduced people's concerns. According to the survey, only a quarter of men, and less than 20 percent of women who are not married, said the introduction of the policy would have an impact on future fertility planning.
Proofread by Faye Wong