Decreasing birthrates does not help a society to develop and even not sustain the status of a society. It only makes it go backward. First of all, the aging society issues will be severer as the number of newborn babies is decreasing. It is not an easy issue for younger generation to afford taking care of senior generation. Although they are not providing seniors directly, they will have higher responsibilities for them in heavier taxation and social participations. Also, this phenomenon will be severer because the life expectancy is increasing according to the medical technique is developing. Then, it will lead women of childbearing age should feel pregnancy as a burden.
Second, the declining birthrates results a negative economic growth. As population gets lower, it gets harder to develop or keep the economic standards because people are meaning absolute in economic system. For example, one of the significant elements for economic growth is consumers; no matter a company produces high quality products, if there are not enough consumers, the products will not be sold. In reality, many companies have been closed for this reason recently; then it causes lots of people losing their jobs, and it is also serious economic issues.
Lastly, it will also decrease the national power. In all ages and countries, the population of a country has had large influence on the national power of the country. Every country has its perfect population, but when the birthrates and population fall off, the system will not function well; it connect directly with the national power. Especially, when a major number of countries estimate a military force, which still most needs people in order to function although it does not as previous time does, they consider how many soldiers the country possesses.
I agree that decreasing birth rates is bad. But how people can have more children if child care expenses are so high. When I had both children in child care we paid $2,000 every month, so I could go to college. After we paid so much I had to drop college, and came back only after my daughter went to elementary school. So only very rich or very poor people can afford to have more children, rich because they can pay, and poor because government helps them.
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