Why don't young people nowadays want to have more children?

The three-child policy, like the previous family planning policy, is a policy that adapts to China's national conditions. In fact, it is not just young people who don't buy the three-child policy now. Even old people who used to give birth to children don't give birth to triplets now. Nowadays, the pressure on the average family to have a second child is already great, not to mention three children. The cost of education is the second most important thing. And children are not as expensive as before. On the surface, it is true, but when I think about it carefully, I always feel that this reason is a bit far-fetched and too one-sided. Take the current family living standard as an example. Even if the conditions are poor, will it be worse than China in the 1960s and 1970s? My grandparents worked hard at that time and gave birth to six or seven children. There is another obvious phenomenon. The proportion of second children in rural areas is much larger than that in cities, which can be seen.

If it is explained by the input-output ratio in economics, I think it is more appropriate for young people not to have two or three children now. My parents were born in 1963. At that time, for the whole society, materials were scarce and economic development was relatively backward. All of them are operated collectively by agricultural cooperatives, and the social division of labor is relatively rough. Survival has become the main problem, so many children are born with brothers and sisters. If you are older, you have to work for a few centimeters more, and there are many people in your family. So many people have never been to school, which can be called pure illiteracy. People with slightly better family conditions rarely study for a few days, while those who study in junior high school and high school are already intellectuals. Therefore, at any point in time, the cost of a child from birth to adulthood is not high, and the certainty of return is relatively strong. Judging from the cost performance of input and output, it is quite cost-effective, so some people are willing to give birth to children even if their families are poor. Therefore, we should have more children, have food and clothing, and bring our wives and children. And having more children with poor conditions is of course a means to get rid of the predicament.

Another point is that the people's commune society is relatively flat and the gap between people is relatively small. This also makes most people in society lack upward channels. They are self-motivated and have no access to social capital, so they will spare a lot of time and do nothing. It is better to have more children as family savings and investment, so that everyone has no money. With the prosperity and development of social economy, the level of productivity has improved, and the social division of labor has become more and more detailed. Those young people, who have already opened the ascending channel, will certainly go all out to climb up, thus leaving less time and energy for their families and raising their children. However, the investment in child-rearing will increase exponentially, and the output will be very uncertain. No one can guarantee that children will succeed when they grow up, so having children is no longer a stable family investment, and may even become a burden of gnawing at the old.

The social rhythm is getting faster and faster, and everyone wants to live a better life. Behind the prosperity of civilization, the population decline goes hand in hand, which seems to have entered a cycle and an inevitable price.