【龙腾网】网友讨论：日本人真的不想生孩子了吗？

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网友讨论：日本人真的不想生孩子了吗？

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Deyoung Young
It’s just expensive to have kids nowadays. Why take care of a kid when you can’t even take care of yourself?

现在生孩子成本太高了，你连自己都照顾不好，怎么照顾孩子？

ArchAzrael79
Yeah, and it's not just financially, taking care of kids also have time, emotional and opportunity cost.
seems like Old lawmaker in Japan still thinks that family must have male breadwinner and female homemaker.

是的，不仅仅只有经济上的成本，照顾孩子同样要付出时间，情感和机会成本
似乎日本的老议员依然认为一个家庭要男主外女主内

Cleric
Philippine,Indonesia,India,Bangladesh,Pakistan where having 6,7 children are common,then their parents blaming the government because they ended up living in abject poverty line,what a logic.Japanese actually were doing great they aware if they can afford or not.

在菲律宾，印尼，印度，孟加拉和巴基斯坦这些国家，一个家庭有六七个孩子是很常见的事情，但这些父母生了孩子以后因为生活赤贫而责怪政府，这是什么逻辑。而日本人在这个方面做的就很好，因为他们知道自己能不能养得起孩子。

sarah rean
But poor people have a lot kids though

但穷人会生很多的孩子
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winterbreak
Unfortunately not everyone understands that.

遗憾的是，不是所有人都明白这个道理

Gellatin Anne T.
Well said. If you barely take care of yourself, why bring another life into this wretched world?

说得好，如果你连自己都几乎照顾不好的话，为什么要把另一个生命带到这个残忍的世界呢？

earlysda
Deyoung, you seem clueless about history when much poorer people had lots of children.

你似乎对历史一无所知，在过去，穷人会生很多的孩子

burgeul fassal
Without faith and sacrifice, everything is meaningless

如果没有了信仰和牺牲，那么所有一切都会失去意义。

Bunny X
Then go to a University and get a degree in a professional career path. Doctors,Lawyers,Engineers etc So that way you can be paid more,Contribute a lot to society and been able to have kids!

如果你没有钱的话，那么就去上一个大学，获得一个专业的学位。你可以去从事医生，律师，工程师等职业，这样就可以赚到更多的钱了，最后你既为社会做出了巨大的贡献，又能够生孩子。

misterPAINMAKER
Poor people do more kids.

穷人会生更多的孩子

Mending Wall
It takes time and money to raise a child and people have less of both these days. If the government wishes to see more families, the environment needs to support it. Long work hours and less pay is not a recipe for children. In japan, people are shamed for taking too many days off for vacation. How can you take time off for a family?

养孩子需要有时间和金钱，现在的人们没有那么多的时间和金钱可以花在孩子身上。如果政府希望看到更多的家庭的话，那么就需要搭建环境进行配合。工作时间长，报酬低不利于提高出生率。在日本，人们会因为休假太多而感到羞愧。你怎么可以为了家庭而休假呢？

At Amo
When locals working for a foreign company in Japan, the staff usually refuse to go to teleconference (with overseas colleagues) at nighttime or weekends or during holiday/vacation. If they did, they would complain about it. I am quite surprised by it. 
Is it because they are working for a foreign company that they can show the true human nature ?

日本人在日本外企上班的时候，往往会拒绝在晚上，周末或节假日和海外同事进行视频会议。就算最后参加了，也会牢骚满腹。我对此感到非常吃惊
这是不是因为他们在外企上班，所以才会表现出自己的真性情？

RonLarhz
Problem is also with the suffocating japanese society culture.

还有一个问题在于日本令人窒息的社会文化

Grizabeebles
Why would anybody want to have kids when they're worried those kids are going to have a lower quality of life growing up than their parents did?

当有人担心孩子长大后的生活质量还不如自己时，为什么他们会想要去生孩子呢？

Sobaka Kustovsky
The irony is that people in Africa and South Asia have 5-12 children at a much lower living standard.

讽刺的是，非洲和南亚的生活水平低得多，但每个家庭却生5到12个孩子
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truthseeker
How much time and money is considered enough? Raising a child isn't just about having time and money. There's also A LOT of responsibility that factors in raising a child as well. Like teaching them the basics of right and wrong. The skills they need in order to survive when they get older. Education. Basically ALL of the stuff you've learned in your lifetime you must pass it onto your child. And no one of this generation wants to bear that responsibility. When you have a child you no longer can think about yourself anymore. All your energy has to be put onto your child 24/7. Feeding them. Cleaning them. And that is not fun for anyone. Not to mention, nobody knows what kind of child parents will have to deal with when they enter this world. Eccentric, energetic and rebellious types will be taxing to keep in check. Making raising a child even more difficult. Overall, there are more cons than pros when it comes to raising/investing in a child. And it's definitely not worth it at all.

要多少的时间和金钱才足够养一个孩子呢？养孩子不仅仅关系到时间和金钱。在养孩子的时候还有很多的责任需要考虑。比如教他们基本的对与错。要教他们以后生存需要的技能。还要给他们提供教育。基本上你要把自己一生中学到的东西都传给自己的孩子。当代年轻人没有一个想要承担这样的责任。当你有了孩子以后，你就不能只考虑自己了。你要无时无刻把自己的精力放在孩子身上。你要亲自喂养他们，要给他们清洗身体。这些工作真的没有什么意思。更不用说，当孩子降生以后，父母根本不知道孩子的性格是什么样的。性情古怪，精力充沛而又叛逆的孩子会让父母心力交瘁。养这样的孩子会更加的困难。总体来说， 养育/投资孩子是弊大于利的事情。绝对不值得这样做。

Gordon Graham
Japan ranks 23rd in the world for hours worked per annum

在年工作时长方面，日本排名世界第23

Doug D
@Sobaka Kustovsky Those developing countries have a high infant mortality rate, and so parents must have more children because most of them are going to die before reaching adulthood.
Also due to the lack of infrastructure and welfare systems, parent's have kids that can take care of them when they are old.
The ideal is to keep the fertility rate ate 2.1 children per family.

那些发展中国家的婴儿死亡率非常高，所以父母必须生更多的孩子，因为大部分孩子很难活到成年。
而且由于缺少基础设施和福利制度，父母需要生更多的孩子，这样他们年老以后，才能有人照顾。

Gordon Graham
@earlysda in the present day, the countries with the highest birthrates are the poorest countries while those with the lowest are the most affluent.

在今天，出生率最高的是那些最贫穷的国家，而出生率最低的是那些最富裕的国家