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Why is there a decline in people's willingness to have children?

The first is mainly a change in people's attitudes, our traditional concepts have a called unfilial three, no later for the big, can not be broken off the idea of the fire, so some families as long as the boy has not been born to have been born, and now hold such a concept of the place there are such as Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and these places, to have three children just to reach the standard, but also have to have a boy, if you do not have a boy in the family in front of relatives and friends head can not lift up, but the number of groups holding this concept is decreasing. If you don't have a boy in your family, you can't lift your head in front of your relatives and friends, but the number of groups holding this concept is decreasing. Nowadays, young people are getting more and more educated, and more and more start pursuing spiritual and material things, pursuing freedom, and don't want to be bound by the traditional concepts. In the agricultural society, the transportation and information is not well developed, and it's very difficult for an individual to get rid of the boundaries of the local social concepts because the individual's economic income and social relations are mainly in the local area. But after industrialization, the economy is developing at a high speed, young people can go out to work, the source of income is no longer dependent on the local area, which makes it possible for them to get rid of the traditional pursuit of freedom, so people emancipate their minds, the pursuit of freedom of conceptual change, a change in the concept of marriage and family, and a change in the attitude to life, which is a major reason for the decline in the birth rate.

Secondly, the popularization of contraceptives has helped people to do not want to give birth, we can imagine ah, in the era before the popularization of this thing, the material base, entertainment life is relatively lack of husband and wife, do not give birth to a child, but also what to do, there is a data, at present, China's annual consumption of condoms should be in the 10 billion or so, you can say how much to reduce the birth rate it. The first one is the one with the most important thing to do.

The third is a direct relationship between women's participation in the workforce, in the agriculture-based society, men farming women weaving, women have time to give birth, but to the industrial society, women began to engage in the workforce, there is not so much time to give birth, and with the women's level of education, they also have their own pursuits, a lot of women are reluctant to do a full-time wife, especially if you let her every day with Three or four children, she is not willing to live like this. This is directly related to industrialization and economic base.

Fourth is the late marriage, but also a very important reason for the decline in the birth rate, the former women married at 18 or 19 years old, at least up to 30 years old to tie the knot, I looked up the data ah, Japanese women's approximate age of marriage is now about 30 years old, to our first and second-tier cities, for example, the average age of marriage is more than 35 years old, the rural areas will certainly be married a little earlier, the older the risk of childbearing, the higher the risk of birth. The older you are, the more risky it is to have children.

The four main reasons can also be verified from the developed countries, in fact, the core of what I want to express is that the high housing prices, the high pressure of life is not the main reason, that is just a kind of opposition to the high prices of the expression of the aspirations. Changes in people's attitudes and the low cost and convenience of contraceptive methods have a much greater impact on fertility rates, a view that you agree with?