Beijing will award 30 days of maternity leave for those who have three children after May 31st. What do you think of this policy?

On August 4, ?Beijing 12345? quoted the Municipal Health Commission as saying: After verification, those who give birth to three children after May 31 (inclusive) according to regulations, in addition to enjoying the maternity leave stipulated by the state, Enjoy 30 days of maternity bonus leave, and your spouse enjoys 15 days of paternity leave. Female employees may, with the consent of their agencies, enterprises, institutions, social groups and other organizations, take an additional leave of one to three months. ?

In my opinion, the incentive effect of this policy on women to have three children can be said to be minimal. After solving these 30 days, what about the next 30 years? Giving birth to and raising a baby is a lifelong matter, and it is not a problem that can be solved with just a 30-day reward. Of course, policies must be implemented gradually. Beijing’s introduction of this reward cannot be said to be wrong. It can be regarded as a small step on the road to three children.

I believe that the low desire to have children among young people in modern society is mainly due to the following factors. ? First, housing prices, commodity prices and other types of living costs are high. Especially in first-tier cities like Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, working-class couples either rent a house all their lives and are beyond the reach of buying a house, or they struggle to pay off the mortgage for a house all their lives. The prices of various daily necessities are high, and they dare not go out for shopping, eating, or shopping. Playing at tourist attractions is a tight life for both of us, let alone with a baby.

Second, the cost of raising a child is too high. Milk powder, diapers for children, various daily necessities, early childhood education classes, having to fight for school district housing for children after school, various extracurricular activities during holidays, summer camps, and even studying abroad, etc., every item All are high expenses. According to rough statistics, it costs at least 2 million to raise a child to adulthood in first-tier cities. What if it is the three children currently encouraged by the country? It is even more unimaginable that unless you have a rich and wealthy family, or you have parents who have succeeded in starting a business, then just because your native family is not a wealthy working-class family, having three children is just a joke.

Third, the current workplace is not friendly to women’s fertility. Research has found that the more successful a woman is in her career, the lower her desire to have children, because pregnancy means that she cannot continue high-intensity work. If you are transferred from your original important position, someone else will immediately replace you, and your income will drop off a cliff. I feel pressure from various aspects such as mortgages and car loans. If my husband or other family members earn a lot, it will be okay if they can withstand the financial pressure. But if this woman is the main financial supporter of the family, life will be difficult once she becomes pregnant.

Fourth, in the family, women are still the main force in raising children. At present, it seems that the vast majority of families are still experiencing similar "widowed" parenting. From the beginning of pregnancy to the companionship and upbringing of the child after the birth, in most families, women devote more time and experience than men. There are many fathers who take care of their children. Women work during the day and take care of their children at night and on holidays. Without their own lives, it is easy to cause psychological problems and family relationships are also easily affected. Therefore, women's sense of happiness is generally not very strong. How to liberate women from the family is a big problem.

To sum up these factors, I believe that in order to truly encourage childbirth and encourage three children, we must start from the above major issues. The government must introduce strong measures to strictly control or even lower housing prices and commodity prices, and improve the fertility control system. The subsidy system provides women with adequate maternity subsidies, minimizes the work and economic losses women suffer due to pregnancy, and opens low-cost or even free childcare institutions... In the final analysis, it is still a question of money, as long as It comprehensively solves the economic problems caused by having a baby. I think even if there is no need to push, the majority of women will voluntarily have more children. After all, from the nature, women want to have their own children.