China's Plan to Tackle Birth Rate Crisis
The world's second-largest population has been trending downward amid the rising cost-of-living and changing cultural attitudes among the younger population.
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What a surprise, it’s too expensive to have kids. The solution? Give women childcare and flexibility to keep working. And tax incentives.
At least that's what they're proposing. Not nearly enough, but none of the crazy stuff you see from right wing nationalists (criminalising abortion, banning divorce, removing access to contraception, etc).
It doesn't really matter what incentives you give for maternity leave if people do not feel that childhood and adult life are worthwhile experiences.
But it gives those that do a better reason not to hesitate. I would love 4 kids. No way I could afford it.
Yes, but the issues facing many countries with declining populations is the extreme lack of free time outside of work to actually pursue relationships and other forms of self-realization.
I am not stating that maternity benefits shouldn't be done, I'm saying that maternity benefits are not going to increase countries' declining populations. The issue is not just with taking care of the child, it's with everything before and after as well, and maternity benefits only impacts the portion during child rearing.
I'm thinking maybe we are on different chapters on this. Once a kid gets to school it frees up the cost of daycare so I'm thinking free daycare will go a long way cause that's easily $1500 usd per child.
As for declining free time, more financial incentives means "potentially less hours" required.
I believe what You are describing is what happens after the initial incentives run out when the kid is older.
According to the beep boop:
The most expensive time for child support, generally speaking, is during the teenage years (roughly 13-18) and the early years of college (18-22’s) . due to increased expenses like back-to-school shopping, sports, extracurricular activities, and the high costs of higher education.
I call bs no way that's more than day care. Unless it's private school then I would be forced to agree.
