Not long ago, a "Population Release of China's Fertility Cost Report 2024 Edition" was released, which roughly tells how much it costs to have a baby and raise a baby in China at each age.
After this report, this algorithm is relatively scientific.
Not only do you count the necessities for raising a baby, such as milk powder and diapers, but you also need to spend on communication equipment, culture and entertainment when you grow up.
The report finally concluded that in China, raising a baby, from the age of 0 to the undergraduate graduation, requires an average of 680,000!
In fact, the core essence of raising a baby is the "anti-aging" investment.
If it weren't for "anti-aging", how many people would be willing to have children?
There may be people who simply like children, but there are certainly not many groups.
The key to raising children at the expense of most people is "pension".
Now I have raised a baby, and the baby will raise me in the future.
Form a state of mutual benefit.
But this premise is that the cost of childbirth is covered by income.
3 The age of 18, that is, the period from kindergarten to high school graduation, is the most expensive time.
According to the above report, the cost of the 3 18-year-old age group is at least about 40.5 million, and most of these costs need to be borne by the parents' families. ** The subsidy given from it and the continuation is relatively small.
At the same time, raising children also has to consider the potential cost of additional physical consumption due to additional "mental loss", which cannot be calculated or quantified.
But suppose the cost of raising a child is greater than the cost of providing for oneself.
This will lead to many people not being happy to have babies.
Originally, giving birth to a baby and raising a baby was a very painful process.
Giving birth to a baby will cause women to soar rapidly, deform and lose shape, postpartum hormonal disorders and so on.
After giving birth to a baby, you will have to go through a long period of raising a baby, which is a great challenge and test for both physical and mental aspects.
And, more crucially, raising a child is not just about raising him.
You also have to consider his future, whether to buy a wedding house, how much the bride price is, and how much the transportation tool [car] costs. This sky-high cost beyond the estimate is the key factor that really crushes the intention of young parents to have children.
There are many elderly people who say that it will be miserable if they have no children.
In their time, in the environment of taking the countryside as a collective, there were no children and descendants, and it was indeed easy to be bullied by the people in the same village, and the elderly only dared to swallow their anger.
Because the legal system was relatively not so sound at that time, young and strong young people were needed to support and cheer up the elderly.
Moreover, at that time, their competitive pressure was not so great, as long as they were down-to-earth and hardworking, they could have everything they should have.
Now it is due to the fact that the gap between the rich and the poor in society is relatively serious.
You may not be able to support yourself, let alone raise a child.
Replaced by the young people of the past, the pressure is far less great.
At this time, at that time, you can't generalize.