Posted on 05/24/2021 8:44:32 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
A once-in-a-decade population census has shown that births in China have fallen to their lowest level since the 1960s - leading to calls for an end to birth control policies. But some in China say these policies aren't the only thing that's stopping them.
Despite being hassled by her mum about it, Beijing resident Lili* is not planning to have children any time soon.
The 31-year-old, who has been married for two years, wants to "live my life" without the "constant worries" of raising a child.
"I have very few peers who have children, and if they do, they're obsessed about getting the best nanny or enrolling the kids in the best schools. It sounds exhausting."
Lili spoke to the BBC on condition of anonymity, noting that her mother would be devastated if she knew how her daughter felt.
But this difference of opinion between the generations reflects the changing attitudes of many young urban Chinese toward childbirth.
The data speaks for itself.
China's census, released earlier this month, showed that around 12 million babies were born last year - a significant decrease from the 18 million in 2016, and the lowest number of births recorded since the 1960s.
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Western culture may still triumph over the ChiComs.
Unfortunately for us, we pay the wrong people to breed over here.
We’re now paying them $300 per month for every child they can breed and $250 per month for every child 6-18. Add that to the rest of welfare benefits, some will be just fine setting on their asses breeding more babies.
We’re rewarding bad behavior. Don’t have them if you cannot afford them.
They have embraced materialism and secularism (they're communist after all) even more than the West. The CCP has drawn the line though at glorification of homosexuality, transgenderism, etc..., and being all Chinese, they haven't embraced self-loathing cultural destruction and diversity
So its a toss-up who goes down the toilet first.
Poland gives tax credits for large families (3+). Not direct cash, a credit.
We need Conservatives of all races to have more kids.
No, it’s reported that Communist China already does cross-border raids into Vietnam and Laos to bring in women for the wifeless men in China.
They can’t wait to get their hands on the Philippines where there is an excess of woman (although lots of cases of Filipina FDWs disappearing from Hong Kong)
Every once in a while a little ray of sunshine manages to pass through. Maybe the chicoms will just non-breed themselves out.
China’s problem with a growing elderly population is solved through euthanasia.
They can handle a shrink in population.
A shrinking population is not a crisis.
There 1.25 BILLION of them....
plenty of chinese already. they can afford a break.
Unfortunately Westerners are doing the same - and they are starting from a much lower number.
As with any socialism (including Western European and American/Canadian), the freebies come at the cost of a successive generation - the taxes are too high to pay for the programs AND have a family.
At any given moment in time 200 million Chinks are fornicating....
We incentivize through welfare the birth of large "families" by single mothers, most who didn't graduate high school and will never work a day in their lives. At the same time we open the border and let in millions third worlders seeking the same welfare system. Meanwhile because of high taxes and the high cost of living our productive members of society aren't having children. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that populating an entire nation with children raised by uneducated druggies isn't going to make for a successful future.
There is a certain age, maybe 30, if a woman is not married, she is no longer marriage material and called a ‘left over woman’.
There 1.25 BILLION of them....
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1.43 or .45 billion now
Every day 40,000 baby Chinks are born...
Our SIL is French. I think they get over a thousand euros a month for the three French kids he and Mr. GG2s daughter produced.
Factoid of the day: If you took all the people in China and laid them end to end around the world, 70% of them would drown.
I think some of the motive is to have the mother stay home with the kids.
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