Abe Has no children and no daughters, is he unable to afford to raise them? Still don't have time? Why is it that the more developed the country, the more people are reluctant to have children? Five reasons left no one with a temper.
According to the Statistics of the United Nations World Population Prospects Report, the top 25 countries with the highest fertility rates in the world are all in Africa. Niger ranked first, with 7.1 children per family. Somalia came in second, with 6.1 children per family.
Poor African countries have a strong willingness to have children, while developed countries in Europe, the United States and East Asia have the lowest fertility rates in the world. Among them, the United States has 1.88 children per family, 1.47 in Germany, 1.42 in Japan and 0.92 in South Korea. Developed countries, including Germany, Italy, Japan, and South Korea, are experiencing negative population growth, that is, the number of people born is smaller than the number of people who die, and the total number of people is decreasing.
Why are people in developed countries and regions reluctant to have children?
To sum up, there are mainly the following reasons:
1, industrial upgrading, do not need so many people.
In the past, in agricultural society, farming mainly relied on manpower, and whoever had more family members had more land and high grain production would become rich. So in the past, it was very common to have five or six, or even seven or eight children, in the family. The Seven Great Aunts and the Eight Great Aunts are referring to that era. Later, industrial upgrading, to the industrial society, mainly relying on technology and brain power, as well as automation equipment, manpower is not so important, can not accommodate so many people. In the era of artificial intelligence, the population will decrease.
2. With the development of urbanization, the competitive pressure is greater
In the past, in the countryside, the gap between people was not large, and there was basically no competition in various places. In the city, the pressure of employment, the pressure to buy a house, and the cost of raising children are rising sharply. High housing prices became the most effective contraceptive pill. It's not that I don't want to be born, but I don't dare to give birth. Therefore, people in the city do not dare to ask for a second or third child. There are still many people in rural areas who have second and third children.
3. Education and self-awareness
Nowadays, people are generally highly educated and highly educated, and both men and women have their own jobs and careers. Women no longer regard childbearing as the most important ability, and only under the premise of ensuring their work career can they have 1-2 children. Some are single, they don't even get married, some get married and become Dink, they just don't want to have a child and involve themselves. Self-awareness has transcended the traditional ethical concepts of society, family, and family.
4. The difficulty of raising and educating children increases
Before raising a child, I had an extra pair of chopsticks. It's pretty much the same with 3 or 4. Now children from birth qualifications, maternal documentation, obstetric examination, lactation, to child feeding, care, as well as kindergartens, primary schools, middle schools, school district housing, no household registration can not go to school locally, etc., every step is difficult to live a large number of people. Rich or poor, there is no family that does not worry about the upbringing and education of its children. Having too many children, I thought there was something wrong with my brain.
5. What is the original law of the food chain?
Humans are at the top of the food chain and usually choose to have fewer children, cultivate them into elites, and gain greater individual value. The more the food chain reaches the middle and lower end, the more it relies on a large number of births and survival probabilities to ensure the reproduction of species. Just like the current new crown virus, it needs to breed desperately to gain space for survival.
Low fertility and an aging population are serious social problems. What are your comments and suggestions? Welcome to share.
