Over 60％ of people are “not confident that they can pay their children’s tuition and education fees．” What do they think is the minimum income necessary to raise a child？
0001Capital Region Tiger ★.Oct. 23, 2024 (Wed) 09:39:31.31ID:jh3oUZ6D9
Job Research Institute, a research institute run by Persol Career Co., Ltd. (Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo), recently announced the results of its “2024 Japanese Economic Awareness Survey: Low Birthrate Edition.” According to the survey, more than 60% of people responded that they were not confident that they could pay tuition and education fees with their current income. In addition, when asked about the minimum income that people think is necessary to raise a child, the average was “8.317 million yen,” the median was “5.25 million yen,” and the most frequent value was “5.25 million yen.” The survey was conducted online in September 2024 targeting 292 working men and women aged 20 to 50 nationwide who use the company’s anonymous consultation service “jobq town.” First, we asked, “Are you thinking about having children in the future?” to which 65.4% answered “Yes.” Looking at this by annual income, 80.4% were “8 million yen or more,” 80.0% were “6 million to less than 8 million yen,” 69.3% were “4 million to less than 6 million yen,” 52.4% were “2 million to less than 4 million yen,” and 44.8% were “less than 2 million yen.” For the full text, see source. Last updated: 10/23 (Wed) 7:30.
If they have children, they will have a mortgage of tens of millions of yen, they will need at least 20 million yen for each child’s upbringing, and it is even said that they will need 40 million yen for their own retirement.
I think it’s tough to have kids on an annual income of 2-4 million yen, but I wonder if there are people who are still new graduates who are answering that they will do it in the future. It’s hard to tell unless you take age and gender into account.
If you’re going to ask people if they want to have children in the future, you should only ask people in their 20s. What’s the point of asking people in their 50s? There aren’t many people to answer, so what do they want to do?
>>12 You want to correlate income with the desire to have children. See, it’s because we don’t have the money! Support us by handing out money. Cause and effect doesn’t matter. Their job is to create correlations that seem plausible and create vested interests.
Liberalizing the ban on child labor for low-income families who can’t afford education fees. Realizing that we’re a developing country, we should treat children as a source of labor like in the old days. Morning Newspaper Taro and the milk-delivering ladybug brothers did the same thing. Children without money should contribute to society from an early age, give money to their families, and make their finances more stable. It’s all good.
There is a huge gap in education between the rich and poor in cities and the countryside. In poor rural areas, unless a child’s intelligence and motor skills are extremely high, they will completely fail.
>>16 People like that should become nurses. Even if they have low intelligence, if they have the physical strength they can earn more than the average Japanese salary.
To begin with, it’s not so much a declining birthrate as there’s no one in the generation to have children… Generally speaking, there are fewer children among the current 55-65 age group.
>>17 My parents are the youngest of many poor children My uncles and aunts only have 1 or 2 children They either couldn’t have children or didn’t want to have children It seems like it’s both.
We should provide more support for child rearing. Taxes for young people should be reduced. Middle-aged and older single people with no future should be treated poorly, just get more out of them.
Japan has too much population, so it’s fine for the birthrate to fall. There’s no need to give preferential treatment to the child-rearing generation. I’d rather they tax children.
Give the money allocated to the elderly to families with children. Also, there’s a huge budget for gender equality projects, but there’s too much of it we don’t need. Dismantle it and reassess the budget. Give it to us.
I think having children is hard. I think that we are squeezed dry of all our money until we graduate from university, and when we leave 20 years later we will be living in a society where AI has risen to power and all we need is one person in a position of responsibility in the workplace. It costs money but you can’t expect anything in return… The old idea that having children would bring you a return has collapsed.
>>30 No, in a few years, AI will take over jobs in non-creative liberal arts jobs. Or rather, companies will go bankrupt because productivity won’t increase if they don’t do that. Even design and editing jobs where you can just copy other people’s designs. And announcers who don’t have the ability to interview people and get their stories out. Humans will still be responsible for things like actually moving around and filming, knowing the structure of the equipment and physically building it, and inspecting it by hand.
If you don’t have money, just send your child to a public school. There’s no need to live in Tokyo and have them take the entrance exams for private schools from elementary school, or to enter some other crazy world. Whether or not they can study depends on whether their parents are at a level where they can easily teach them for the high school entrance exams.
>>33 It seems like even if you spend that much money, you’ll only get a March rank Well, if those people don’t do anything, they’ll probably end up in the F column…
The reason for the declining birthrate is because single men over 40 don’t get married, don’t have children, and live as they please, so we should collect single men’s savings for retirement as a singles tax and give it to young people to get them married.
>>44 Until now, marriage and childbirth were just a part of the momentum, and things were somehow getting by. But now that there are so many goody-goody people saying things like that, the birthrate is declining at a rapid pace.
>>44 You’re complaining about the government not coming up with any good policies or producing any decent results, even though you’re saying that not having children will lead to a declining birthrate and it’s going to be a big problem.
A normal salaryman’s income increases based on seniority, and he lived in Tokyo and sent his children to cram school. It’s not possible to do that in Tokyo now, but in a regional city, you have to be extravagant, like replacing your car every 3-5 years.
>>49 If you just get married through an arranged marriage or introduction and just have sex, the baby will be born. Once the baby is born, you have no choice but to raise it in a way that suits your household’s financial situation at the time.
In capitalism, it’s natural to spend money on children, and if you can’t invest, it’s bad debt. Who would willingly buy such high-risk financial products? If someone with no money gambles on speculation, the world will call them stupid.
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