In the past, people get married early because it was a widely accepted tradition; women usually didn't need to get a job and their energy is going to be devoted to the family life. However, with a trend that women are starting to get a chance to appear in all kinds of workplaces, even some of them occupied several high-profile jobs. As a result, both men and women have passion on their works, valuing their work as equal as family life, and are eager to get promotion. Therefore, they don't want to walk into the pact of marriage until they find a secure and satisfied position in their workplaces. This causes to late marriage and plays an important role in reducing the desire for children. Women's reproductive organs may also be too old to function at this point(in their late 30s).
We all know that there is an unspeakable fact that if you want to raise a child in current society in Taiwan, you will have to prepare at least millions of dollars as children's future education fees and living cost. According to recently prevalent situation that jobs available now are low-paying and increasingly higher living cost in city in Taiwan, it has become difficult for young folks to feed themselves, not to mention raising children. Even though they get an ample salary, the living cost in cities is too high that they can barely afford themselves. As a result, many people decide that if they couldn't give their child a best environment, they rather not bear one.
There is a brand new way of living life due to the various emerging recreational activities. Therefore, providing a new option for those who are not very into bearing and raising children type of things. Without children, those couples are able to spend more time on their hobbies or things they are eager to try, to experience. For example, they can plan to travel around the world as backpackers or take a class which they are interested or helpful for their careers. Or even the most simplest things, such as going to theater or having a dinner at restaurants, which possibly can't happen if there was a child. This type of people enjoy killing time with their partners without children's interruption.
All these reasons causing people don't want to give birth have a first and foremost consequence which is the low rate of birth in Taiwan. The warning alarm has been lighting for the past five years. Several international researches and surveys have mentioned that the rate of birth in Taiwan is the lowest compared to other countries. And this has led to following results, the aging population, spoiled children and less competitive population.
Fewer and fewer babies are born each year in Taiwan contributes to the relatively high rate of old people. Taiwanese government may find themselves facing a series of problems related to this situation, such as rising death rate and aged people care problem. In addition, most couples either choose not to have children or only want to have one, which may cause spoiled children issue. Because they want to give everything to their only child; however, sometimes it will cause the opposite effect.
It was totally unthinkable and unacceptable that women decided not to have children in the past society. However, with the advert of new thinking mold, many things have broken its old patterns and become possible. So I think women in this generation are lucky to have right to decide whether or not to give birth. Undoubtedly, there must be good side and bad side about having children, thus it is up to you to make this important choice.
