Real reasons people do not have the number of children they want revealed in new report | Global development
A new report warned from the United Nations.
Factors such as the high cost of paternity, job insecurity, expensive housing, concerns about the state of the world and the absence of a suitable partner preventing people who prevent families, instead of any desire not to have children, The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) said.
While right -wing governments, including the United States and HungaryIncreasingly Blame the low fertility rates for rejecting parentingThe population report of the 2025 global population in UNFPA found that most people want children.
“The issue is the lack of choice, not desire, with great consequences for individuals and societies. This is the real fertility crisis, and the answer lies in responding to what people say they need: a paid family leave, reasonable fertility and supportive partners,” said Dr. Natalia Caeim, UNFPA CEO:
The YouGov report in 14 countries found nearly five people that they do not have the size of the family they want, with one of all nine believe they will be less than children than they want and 7 % of they have more.
The pioneering barrier to having children was money, as 39 % of people who said financial restrictions had either had more children than children than he wanted to do.
Women were nearly twice that of men to say that the unequal division in domestic workers was a worker, while both men and women said fears of the future, including about climate change and conflict, meant that they limit the size of their families.
“Many countries are struggling with the aging of the population, the reduction of the population, the lack of employment, the high costs of health care and pensions. These are real concerns, yet they lead some wrong conclusions.”
“Instead of strengthening the participation of a woman’s workforce, which actually shows to improve economic productivity, amid the aging of the population, there is a growing insistence that women and youth have more children.
“In some cases, the adjacent neighbor may urge you to marry before it is too late. In other cases, the government may put advertisements that say the same mainly. In some cases, they are countries that impose restrictions on the availability of contraceptives and other services.”
However, forced policies aim to increase births (such as restrictions on miscarriage and birth control), and no financial incentives such as the US proposals A “child reward” worth $ 5,000 The report warns that there is a long -term long -term effect and the report can be that the wage is for new mothers, nor efforts to address low fertility rates that have a long -term effect and can lead to counterproductive results.
Caeim said that the lack of safe ends led to unsafe abortions, a major cause of the death of the mother and infections that caused infertility.
“We also see that when people feel that their reproductive options are directed, when policies are seen as very forced, people interact and less likely to have children.
She added: “It is clear that the answer does not lie in reducing the choice or choosing someone who gets the option of exercise; the answer is to expand the true choice of all people.”
