Last year, Taiwan’s newborns hit a record low. A yes123 job search website poll found that insufficient money, inability to afford a house, and too busy a job are the reasons why workers are reluctant to have children (provided by the industry)

[Reporter Li Lianghui/Taipei Report] Last year, the number of newborns in Taiwan reached 138,000, a record low in history. According to the survey conducted by the yes123 job search website, nearly 60% of the respondents currently have no children, and 56% have no family planning. The top 3 who do not have children The main reasons are "I'm afraid that I don't earn enough money to raise my children", "I can't afford a house, so I can't give my children a home", "I'm busy with work, I'm afraid I don't have time to take care of my children”.

Children’s Day and Ching Ming Festival holidays are approaching. The yes123 job search website recently conducted a “Survey on the Marriage and Childbirth Planning of Workers in the Year of the Rabbit”. The survey found that only 41.8% of adult workers over the age of 20 currently have children; the remaining 58.2% Only 43.9% of workers without children "plan" to have children.

As much as 80% of laborers who do not have children currently worry that there will be no one to "worship ancestors during the Qingming Festival" in the future.

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Explore the reasons why laborers do not want to have children. In the case of multiple choices, the main order is "fear of not earning enough money to raise children (74.7%)", "can't afford a house, and cannot give children a home (57.8%)" , "I'm busy with work, I'm afraid I won't have time to take care of my children (39.9%)", "I feel that it's hard to find a reassuring nanny or childcare institution (27.6%)", "I feel that I will not be free after having a child (25.6%)".

Interpreting the aforementioned survey results, yes123 job search website spokesperson Yang Zongbin believes that Taiwan's "decreasing birth rate" is not only related to low wages, frozen wages, and long working hours. Become one of the fuses of "rejection of life" or "fear of life".

Yang Zongbin suggested that if the government wants to increase the fertility rate, in addition to economic considerations, such as calling on companies to raise wages, increase basic wages, or increase salary levels through counseling industry transformation; other parts must also be from social welfare and social security. Start at the level and establish a more complete childcare mechanism.

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