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Decreasing birth rate is similar as an arrow.
It’s affecting our country so badly. Due to the decreasing number of newborn
babies, a big portion of Korea’s citizens is aged 65 and older. This matter can
damage our economy badly because the country should invest a lot of money on
taking care of retired seniors. Also, since there aren’t enough babies being
given birth, Korea cannot raise new workers of the future. Isn’t there any way
we can escape from this situation?
The first thing we can do to solve problems
related to the low birth rate is to encourage mothers and fathers to give birth
to more children. The biggest reason why parents aren’t having children is
because of the amount of money they should spend to raise them. (education
fees, money to buy their clothes, etc.) The money spent to raise a child is
impossible to be calculated, and parents are concerned if they would face
hardships in managing their budgets. In this situation, the government can
support them in spending money for their kids. Currently, the government of the
Republic of Korea is funding fees spent for a third child in a family. Our
country needs to come up with more ideas like this one in order to attract
mothers to help increase the birth rate.
The second solution is to let citizens know
more about the seriousness of the decreasing birth rate. A lot of parents in
Korea aren’t aware of the reasons why low birth rate is such a serious crisis.
They don’t know that when a big number of citizens become 65 and older, our
nation’s economic growth can slow down because we cannot raise enough workers
for companies, and the government needs to spend a big part of people’s taxes
for healthcare and retirement life of seniors. In this situation, we can write
more news articles and books about the birth rate issue. Then, people who read
these would be able to learn how serious the problem is.
Low birth rate is a serious problem in our nation
these days, and we have to come up with solutions to it. We can encourage
parents to have more children, and write books and show news broadcasts about
the issue in order to let the public realize that it is a huge matter.
Personally, I think one of the reasons why it is hard to increase the birth
rate is because not every citizen of our country is participating in coming up
with solutions. It wouldn’t be hard to solve the crisis if all of us help bring
our birth rate back to normal. Come on! Think of an idea! There isn’t anything
impossible!
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