China’s fertility rate has fallen below the warning line, and the cost of raising a child is now high.
First of all, in the childbearing stage: During pregnancy, pregnant women need to go to the hospital for various physical examinations. Fertility surgeries also require money, as well as nutritional expenses during the confinement period.
Children in infancy: If they are breastfed, they must be cared for by their mothers, ranging from one to three years. During this period, the man needs to support the whole family alone, which can be very stressful. Of course, you can also leave it to the care of the elderly at home. This will involve another problem. Nowadays, a can of milk powder is several hundred dollars larger. It is fine before one year old, but the child's appetite will gradually increase. In the later period, a can of milk powder will be the most. It's a big expense to last a week.
Education period: Children generally go to kindergarten to receive preschool education when they are 3 to 4 years old. Even public kindergartens cost about 500 per month, and private ones are more expensive. Primary school to junior high school is compulsory education, which saves tuition fees. However, as parents pay more attention to their children's learning, they will sign up for various cram schools and interest classes. I have personally experienced that an average cram school class currently costs 35 yuan per class.
High school can be said to be the most important stage in a child's life, and it is also the time when money is most needed. Most parents will spare no effort to support it. The tuition fees for key high schools are several thousand or even tens of thousands per semester. During this period, I was under a lot of pressure to study, I had to keep up with various nutritional supplements, and my living expenses were at least 1,000 yuan a month. In three years, it will cost 80,000 to 90,000.
It will be relatively better to go to college. Studying will not be so stressful, and as an adult, you can work part-time during winter and summer vacations to subsidize your personal living expenses.
————In fact, it is not only the cost of raising children that is rising, but it is also related to the nature of the current society. In the past, people farmed at home and believed that population was the labor force. One more person meant more effort. If you have enough to eat, you will be happy if you marry a wife in the future. It's different now, everyone has to go to the city to work hard, and a child has to share the burden and bear more pressure.
