On January 15, 2023, the official website of the Guangzhou Municipal People's Government released the "Guangzhou Population and Family Planning Service Regulations": the woman can enjoy 80 days of incentive leave on the basis of the maternity leave stipulated by the state, the man can enjoy 15 days of paternity leave, and within the age of 3 years of the child, the parents each enjoy 10 days of parental leave every year. If the woman voluntarily reduces incentive leave, childcare leave, paternity leave, childcare leave, etc. can be increased by the corresponding number of days.
Simply put, Guangzhou has 10 more days of maternity leave for giving birth. It is not clear, when this policy was formulated, why did we not give birth to the reason, and did the decision-makers go to the grassroots level to investigate? I think that those who do not want to give birth will not change their minds due to these 10 days of maternity leave. If you are willing to give birth, that's just the icing on the cake. This is just an increase in national welfare, not an incentive policy, but an increase in the burden on employers, and it is more difficult for women who have not given birth to find employment. Whether such benefits have an effect or not, it will take time to verify.
Having a child, the average family can afford it, the reason for not giving birth is that they can't afford to raise it after birth, housing, education, employment, pension, is our pain point! Four points, solve any point, the fertility rate will be reversed.
Policy promotion is good, but some families with limited ability exceed their ability, because they like and policy encouragement choose to give birth, and the pressure and burden brought by the later period are more uncomfortable, let alone worry about childbearing. This is the same as insurance, when you buy it is promoted, I think this product is very good, worth buying, really need to pay every year when the flesh hurts, 5,000 a month of people, buy tens of thousands of critical illness insurance every year overwhelmed people in. On these issues, we need to look at them more rationally and not act rashly. Sometimes, not giving birth is kindness, but also responsibility.