In recent years, the topic of the second child has been very embarrassing. When the second child policy was first implemented, people thought that the "baby boom" was coming.

However, several years later, the expected explosive baby boom did not come, which puzzled many people and wondered why this happened.

According to the current fertility statistics, the fertility rate in China has fallen below the warning line of 1.5 and reached the lower limit of 1.47.

You know, if the fertility rate is too low, it will have very serious consequences for social development and stability.

Let's talk about the meaning of fertility rate first. Some people may not understand what this 1.47 stands for.

In fact, a couple will have 1.47 children, and the normal replacement fertility rate must reach 2. 1.

When the fertility rate is lower than 1.5, it may have some serious effects, leading to the aging of the population and the decline of the fertility rate.

The aging and declining population structure is obviously not a healthy population structure, which is not conducive to the development of society and the continuation of civilization.

Then the question is, why do China people who used to like having more children now don't even want to have a second child?

Some young parents were asked why they didn't have a second child when the country opened the second child policy.

Most young parents will say that their financial ability is not enough to give their children excellent growth conditions, or even to maintain their ordinary growth environment.

Is it so expensive to raise a child?

Anyone who has raised a child should understand the true meaning: no amount of money is enough to raise a child.

Why do you say that?

Because parents are in a "better" state when raising their children, they always want their children to use the best things.

Therefore, parents always correspond their children's economic expenditure to the family's economic income in proportion.

For example, a couple is a working class, so when buying clothes for their children, they will choose some popular brands with high cost performance.

After a period of time, the couple were promoted to middle managers, and their economic income was higher. Therefore, when buying clothes for their children, they would choose some high-quality middle-and high-end brand clothes.

After a period of hard work, the couple became the highest decision makers of the unit. They not only got a raise, but also got a dividend, and their economic ability was greatly improved.

So when buying clothes for children, they will choose some high-end brands of clothes.

In short, most parents spare no effort to improve their financial ability in terms of children's expenses.

At this time, if a second child is born, parents will meet the needs of the second child under the same material conditions. Even if children don't need such high material satisfaction, parents will try their best to give it, which leads to great financial pressure on parents.

Of course, such a promotion speed is hardly seen in reality. Most families are caused by their own economic conditions that cannot meet the basic growth needs of their children.

In today's society, people pursue a high-quality life, prices are rising year by year, and people unconsciously consume more.

The reason why many people feel less obvious is actually because the current lending finance is relatively developed. If you are careful, you can find that many young people in China have been "controlled" by some financial products, such as flower beds and credit cards.

In addition, the rapidly rising housing prices have also caused many young people to bear heavy debts.

There are also prenatal education, early education, preschool education, supplementary education, professional education, interest education, quality education, psychological education and so on.

In the past, most children didn't attend these non-compulsory education institutions because the social development was not in place and outstanding.

But now it is almost normal to enroll children in cram schools and interest classes. If you don't report to class, your child may be regarded as "special" by others.

No parents want their children to be inferior to others, whether in education, growth or development.

Therefore, children's expenses have become a bottomless pit, and the economic income of ordinary families has not risen with prices.

Especially this year's epidemic, many people's income has also declined, resulting in no money and unable to maintain the expenses of the second child.

In addition, the process of social digitalization and informatization is progressing rapidly. Whether children attend some interest classes or go to school formally, they usually have a class group.

Teachers also often like to communicate with parents in class groups, as well as assign children's homework, send notices and so on.

Some people may think that this is nothing, and even facilitates the communication between home and school, which should reduce the pressure on parents.

But in fact, the high development of information technology has narrowed the distance between teachers, children and parents, leading some teachers to often use class groups to publish information.

Some things that should have been conveyed by children are now posted directly by teachers in the class group, which leads to increased pressure on parents.

Don't think it's easy to take time to look at the class group. You know, many parents are very busy at work, and there is really no way to remember to watch the class group on time every day.

On the other hand, because of the convenience of communication, many teachers began to ask parents to help their children check their homework and so on.

This is actually no problem. It is an intensive behavior of home-school cooperation, which can let parents know more about their children's learning.

However, this behavior has caused great pressure to many parents who are busy with work, have low academic qualifications and do not have the corresponding conditions.

Generally speaking, the interaction between parents and school education has become more frequent, and parents' energy has been slightly insufficient for a child. If they have a second child, I'm afraid their hearts will collapse.

Now do you understand why the second child tide didn't appear?

Wages do not rise with consumption (material pressure), and homework should be changed frequently (mental pressure). This kind of double pressure makes parents reluctant to maintain the healthy growth of a child, let alone have a second child.

If there is no condition and energy, how can you have the courage to have a second child? Which parents are willing to prepare their children for suffering at birth?

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