Birthrate in Japan has been on the decline over the past 10 years. It is a serious problem today. The birthrate of Japan is 1.29. It is lower among other developed countries. Japanese government has to consider measures against declining birthrate, because it relates to other problems such as pension problem or a lack of labor force. The declining birthrate keeps going because people are bothered with economic pressures, because working women are increasing, because child care service is not completed.
It takes money to raise a child. Some people are worried about having a child because of monetary problem. It is called that it takes ten million yen to raise a child. The number becomes lager than that of the past 10 years. The reason is that most parents recently have children go to a cram shool and an university or a technical college. Parents have to spend a lot of money for only even educational expenditure. Therefore, some people are worried about monetary problem before having a child.
Other reason of declining birthrate is that working women has increased. It is getting easy for women to take more opprtunities for careers. Some women work driving for careers, other women are satisfied with their works. Women get feel a sense of fullfillment on their works. As a result, more and more people tend to get married later in life and they tend not to have many children.
Nowadays child care service is still not completed. Japanese government and Japanese conpanies have to improve a child care service. There are still few preshools in Japan. People are bothered with no preshools near thier houses. Especially preshools are important facilities for double- income households. Besides most companies admit child-care leave, but the term is still short. So they have to extend the term.
There are various factors that birthrate has been on the decline. Japan can not leave this problem unsolved because declining birthrate will aggravate Japanese economic in the near future. Threfore Japanese government should spend money for child support system. Also, The government should take measures in order that declining birthrate does not keep going any more.
