An unavoidable problem has emerged, that is, our country has officially entered an aging society, with more and more elderly people and fewer young people. The reason for this is undeniably related to the fertility policy of decades ago, when the state encouraged ordinary people to have more children and contribute more labor to the country to build society. At that time, many families had five or six children, but too many people also caused problems, so they planned family planning again.
In addition to the increasing number of elderly people, fewer newborns are also an important problem, on the one hand, the reason for the decline in newborns is that young people are too stressed to have children, on the other hand, there are more and more single sticks, and the marriage ratio is too low. So in this case, what measures does the state have to do to save such a situation?
First, why are there more and more single sticks in our country?
1. There is a serious imbalance between men and women
According to the latest 2021 census, there are still more than 30 million more men than women in our country. This is already a data for a somewhat reduced proportion of men and women, and if the state does not control it, the current data will only be even more disparity.
First, our country's social foundation for today's far more men than women comes from the patriarchal history of decades or even centuries. There was a long time in the history of our country where both parents wished they had a son and not a daughter.
There are only a few reasons why men have always been so valued: in the earliest days, men were the main labor force in a family, because women could not make a physical contribution to the family when the technology was underdeveloped. Later, because after marriage, the man can stay at home, and the woman must live with her husband, and the awareness of "raising children and preventing the elderly" is becoming more and more deeply rooted in the concept of the people.
2. The cost of marriage is getting higher and higher
The cost of marriage is not only for men, but also for women. For men, the cost of marriage is mainly reflected in the bride price and some dowry things, such as houses and cars. In the past, the bride price was a gift money that the man took the initiative to carry when proposing to the woman, which could be money or things, and the price was not fixed. However, the current dowry money is more and more excessive, the per capita salary in the city is only more than 4,000, and many families have a dowry money of hundreds of thousands of yuan.
For women, the biggest cost is the pressure in the workplace. Companies in many cities are very strict with female job seekers, and some will explicitly require that job seekers cannot be married. Because once a female worker becomes pregnant, she is required to take ten months of maternity leave, which is paid leave. No company wants to raise idle people for a year, so most of them will fundamentally avoid this situation, and marriage means a wall in the workplace for women.
3. The social atmosphere is incorrect
There is also a problem with the factors influencing the marriage rate between men and women, that is, the current social climate is becoming more and more incorrect. First of all, for women, there are various forces on the Internet, including Internet businesses and foreign forces, who are brainwashing women in our country in various ways.
Some are the importance of brainwashing women into money, making women snobbish and gold-seeking. Some are distorting China's aesthetic orientation, making everyone feel that those white and thin "feminine" small fresh meat is the dream lover, so that the majority of Chinese men have lost their masculinity. And some men and women do not have a clear understanding of themselves, but an ordinary person dreams of Prince Charming and Snow White driving all day long. People who fall in love with the unreal turn a blind eye to the beauty of the real world.
At the same time, foreign forces are trying to provoke confrontation between men and women on the mainland, so that some men are afraid of women, some women are afraid of men, and the marriage rate is naturally greatly reduced. Finally, fast-food love has made modern people lose the ability to love and trust.
Second, the state has issued a number of policies to save the situation
1. Doctors are prohibited from revealing the sex of the fetus to their parents
The first is the first issue, the disparity in the proportion of men and women. In fact, people's ideological concepts have changed over the years, and most people already feel that boys and girls are treasures and no longer sexist.
But in some rural and mountainous areas where the mind is not open, this situation is still deeply rooted, and it is often such places that have the most single sticks. Since it cannot be solved from the ideological level, the state can only prohibit it from the outside.
The state has issued a clear requirement that when the doctors of the hospital test pregnant women and fetuses, they will never allow the doctor to disclose the gender of the child to the parents and relatives of the child in any way, and this policy is to prevent parents from beating the child because the child is female. Moreover, the state is also actively popularizing the idea of equality between men and women, and fundamentally solving the problem of imbalance between men and women.
2. Vigorously control the sky-high price of the bride price
Now marriage is not only up to hundreds of thousands of dowry money, but also requires the man to have a house and a car. But the age of marriage is often only in their twenties, where do young people get their assets? I can only bear the car loan and mortgage at a young age, and the pressure is so great that I can't breathe. The man's parents will certainly not sit idly by and need to use their savings to help their children. The result is a marriage, and a family is hollowed out.
In fact, since the founding of New China, the state has begun to advocate marriage without talking about money, but over the years, instead of not talking about money, everyone has talked more and more directly. Make a good marriage look like a women's trade fair. When the woman's parents ask for the bride price, it is not like they are thinking about their daughter, but more like they want to earn back the efforts of more than twenty years.
3. Control the soaring price of housing prices
The cost of marriage is not only the bride price of the man, but also the house purchased by both parties, but now that the house price is growing rapidly, marriage means becoming a house slave. In the more developed cities, the greater the pressure to buy a house, so in order to make young people willing to get married and dare to get married, the state is to combat the unreasonable expansion of house prices, so that young people can afford to buy a house and start a family. And the opening of the housing market in 2022, we can see that the house price has been controlled.
conclusion:
Today's men have a large number of single sticks and the low marriage rate of men and women, mainly due to the serious idea of son preference, and the cost of marriage for young people is too large. After marriage, the lives of two people will become a matter of two families, which is a great blow to young people who are in the ascendancy of their careers. Fortunately, the country has actively taken measures to alleviate it, and I believe it will get better and better in the future. What else do you think about this? Feel free to share it in the comments section.