He Suohuan, a writer of sexual affective psychology, writes love stories, interesting strangers, and material knowledge.
There is a hot search on Zhihu: due to the lack of students, a certain place has enrolled students for the first time in 20 years.
Some experts said: the tide of kindergarten closures has arrived.
What does this mean?
Let's first look at the number of births in recent years:
In 2016, the "second child" was released, and the number of newborns that year was: 17.86 million.
Number of births in 2017: 17.23 million.
Number of births in 2018: 15.23 million.
Number of births in 2019: 14.65 million.
Number of births in 2020: 12 million.
Number of births in 2021: 10.62 million.
Number of births in 2022: 9.56 million.
What comes to mind when you see the downward trend in the number of newborns over the past 7 years?
In 2020, the number of newborns has fallen below 10 million, which is already less than the number of college students who graduated that year.
That's pretty scary data.
Not only that, the number of single people in the mainland has exceeded 240 million in 2020.
By 2021, the number of people living alone has exceeded 92 million.
In recent years, the number of marriages has also decreased year by year.
All kinds of data illustrate several problems.
First: There are more and more people who do not want to get married
Second: fewer and fewer people have children
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What are the problems behind this phenomenon?
First: marriage and singleness, becoming antagonistic
In this environment, the following problems will arise in the future:
For people of appropriate age, there will be two extremes:
One is the people who want to get married and aspire to get married; However, it is difficult for them to meet the right person who also wants to get married.
the other is people who do not want to get married and choose to be single; On the way to singleness, they gradually no longer are urged to marry by their parents, because there are more and more single people around.
From the beginning of opposition, to the state of "coexistence".
From the beginning, everyone aspired to get married, and becoming single is also a good way to live.
Second: In the future, kindergartens and primary schools may "close more"
Let me start with some phenomena in my hometown:
In my hometown, some rural primary schools have been closed, and all of them are concentrated in towns;
There are also secondary schools, all focused on building better schools.
What does this mean? It shows that the school-age enrollment population is getting smaller and smaller.
As there are fewer and fewer newborns, it is foreseeable that in the coming years, some kindergartens will only have fewer and fewer students.
Third: the most difficult is the 40-50 year old
Why do you say that?
Because the problem that this group of people will face may be: no one to provide for themselves.
Of this group, only children account for the majority.
They only have one child, and if their children do not get married and do not have children, then when they are old, there will be a lot of pressure for a child to retire.
What's more, the cost of living for young people, life pressure is very high, perhaps at that time, parents can only rely on themselves.
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Why don't people want to get married or have children now?
Some experts, telling the truth online.
They said: "Today's young people, life is too stressful, the cost of living is too high; Can't afford to buy a house, can't get married, don't dare to lie down, and don't have time to rest. ”
Words are heartfelt.
1. Not getting married because there is no money
Some people who "sell houses", in order to encourage boys to buy houses, put up slogans:
"If you get married and don't buy a house, you are ashamed of your mother-in-law."
The "roadblock" in front of marriage is money.
What should I do if I can't get married or buy a house?
Work is tired, stressed, and there is no time to fall in love, what to do?
In some areas, the starting price of the bride price is 300,000 yuan, which is "thousands of purples, thousands of reds and one green";
A man wants to get married, the cost is so high that he has to empty the wallets of several elders in the family, what do you say they do?
In this environment, it is a sure thing that men do not want to get married.
A man who wants to marry cannot find a suitable girl, or a partner;
Conditional men, seeing through the essence of marriage, would rather spend money on falling in love than bother to enter marriage.
Most boys have entered the "marriage rotten" mentality.
Is the game not fun?
Is it not fragrant to eat and drink with friends?
Is it that there is oil in the car, the mobile phone has electricity, is it not good to have a self-driving trip that says and goes?
2. Not having children is not wanting to let children bear their own pressure
"Involution", it is not that young people want to roll.
Why don't you want to have children?
Because raising a child now is too costly and too rolled.
The surrounding children are all taken by parents to sign up for various interest classes, all kinds of early education, you don't let the children attend?
Your own life has not yet settled, every month mortgage, car loan, living expenses can not make ends meet, and still have children?
More and more people are realizing that:
"Having a child is not inheritance at all, and there is no royal throne for the child to inherit in my own family."
Of course, this is also related to factors such as women's thinking patterns, sense of independence, and economic independence.
Women face all kinds of pressures in the workplace.
Not married, you have to be difficult during the interview;
If you are in love and are not married, you have to be embarrassed;
If you are married and have not yet had children, the company will consider whether to recruit you.
In this environment, do you say that girls are still willing to have children?
Not only that, some women have seen examples of domestic violence, cheating, and various unhappy marriages, and they also have "fear" of marriage and having children.
Essentially:
Today's people do not get married and do not have children, which is nothing more than too high housing prices, too low income, and high life pressure.
Today's Topic:
What do you think of people now, not getting married and not having children?
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