Recently, I surfed the Internet and found that various media platforms and self-media all talk about one thing "young people do not want to have children". According to statistics by some experts and scholars, the one-child fertility rate in the mainland fell below 0.5, which means that basically two couples only have one child. According to the rate of decline in the number of births in recent years, the number of births in 2023 will be less than 8 million. Even in the family planning years in the Chaoshan region of Guangdong, where the birth rate was the highest, no matter how you fine a family, there are 3 to 5 births, and now a couple is also one to two.
Dan Dan (pseudonym) in the picture wrote such a blog post: As a post-90s woman of childbearing age, I want to say that I really like children. Women will really be full of maternal love when they reach a certain age, but these maternal loves of mine can only be pinned on pets. Hold it and fantasize about being a mother. But the maternal love in my genes made me have to face reality again. I am responsible for my children, and having children means losing your job and not earning income. My family can't afford to have children. I can't let my child fall into pain as soon as it is born, I love my child, because I love it too much, so I have to refrain from it. This is the voice of a woman of childbearing age.
Now whether it is making money, buying a house, getting married, having children, raising a baby, it is not easy, the cost is too high. From birth to school, a family will give everything it has, with low income and instability. Employment, mortgages, and education costs are under pressure. I really can't afford it! If a family can barely survive without having children, get married and have children, and you and your parents will be exhausted to death, and this pain is as endless as hell. Therefore, young people will not live in pain for themselves and their parents until they die. I can only choose to cut off my descendants and wave a knife from the palace. The bereaved is a helpless act of having no descendants on the ancestors.
Traveling in Yunnan earlier, I met a young and loving couple, and chatted with them about the problem of having children, his husband and wife said that they have been married for ten years, and they have no plans to have children, according to the monthly income of his husband and wife, the two also have 1.5W, according to the current purchase of a house, for a car, the living economy is just right, the cost of giving birth to a child for education is too high, temporarily unrealistic, they think that having a child, regardless of the conditions of good fertility, it is cruel torture to their offspring, that is to use their own blood to make slaves for the social elite. And now my wife and I are in a room with three meals and four seasons, and without children, her puberty can be extended for twenty or thirty years, and our husband and wife's financial resources are enough for us to live happily until death. Old, let's hold hands and step into eternity together. Whether it is hedonism or the Kedin people, in the final analysis, the cost of living is too high.
To have children, you have to get married first, and if you want to get married, you have to have a car and a house. At present, the high housing prices rely on the income of young people to provide a down payment, only to empty the pension wallets of both parents, and it is difficult to ensure the quality of life in the future. With the rising cost of living, many families are unable to afford the high costs of childbearing and parenting. This is the reason for the decline in fertility!
So high housing prices are the best contraceptives. It's not that young people don't want to have children, the causal relationship is reversed. Childbirth requires some security conditions, and now these security conditions are not perfect, and the cost of medical care and education is high, not to mention the second child. Therefore, the fertility rate has fallen below the red line, the economy cannot improve in the short term, and there is no strong birth allowance stimulus policy, and the fertility rate is likely to decline.