BIGLOBE conducted a survey on 18 men and women between the ages of 25 and 500 throughout Japan, and announced the survey results. 45.7% of Generation Z "do not want children in the future", and other than money, reasons such as "I don't have the confidence to raise them" and "I don't want my time to be restricted" were given.
When 18 unmarried men and women aged 25 to 457 who are unmarried and have no children from Generation Z nationwide were asked about their future marriage and children, 44.9% answered that they would like to get married and have children in the future. "I want to have children even if I don't care about getting married in the future" (9.4%), "I want to get married in the future, but I don't want children" (9.6%), "I don't want to get married in the future, and I don't want children" (36.1%) %). 45.7% of Generation Z say they do not want children in the future.By gender, 43.4% of men answered "I don't want to get married in the future and I don't want to have children" (52%), while 51.3% of women answered "I want to get married and have children in the future" (XNUMX%). . More than half (XNUMX%) of men answered that they "do not want children in the future," showing a difference between men and women.
When 18 men and women of Generation Z aged 25 to 209 who answered that they "do not want children in the future" were asked about "reasons for not wanting children," 17.7% answered "money problem", The result was "other than money problems" (42.1%) and "both" (40.2%). More than 4% of the respondents answered “other than money issues.”In addition, when asked about the reasons why they do not want children other than money issues, 52.3% said, ``I don't have the confidence to raise children,'' 45.9% said, ``I don't like children. Because I lose my freedom (I don't want my time to be restricted)” (36%) ranked high.
「将来、子どもがほしい」と回答した18歳から25歳までのZ世代の男女248人に、子育て支援に関して、「該当する年代のこどもがいる家庭に支援が必要か」を質問すると「妊娠・出産期」「乳幼児期」は約9割、「高校生」「大学生等、学業を続ける場合」も約7割が支援が必要と回答した。比較対象として、26歳から59歳までのその他の世代(500人のうち子どもがいる354人)にも同様の質問をしたところ、「妊娠・出産期」「乳幼児期」は8割を超え、「高校生」「大学生等、学業を続ける場合」も7割近い結果となった。
Regarding child-rearing support, from Generation Z, "I think financial support is necessary from pregnancy until the child is old enough to work (24 years old)", "When considering the cost, the amount tends to increase as the age increases. Because of this, I feel that I should not ignore the support I received during my junior and senior high school years (age 25).” “I believe that compulsory education should provide allowances to prevent economic disparities within families (age 20).” I think the declining birthrate and aging population will only continue if we don't increase support and make it easier for people to raise children.
In addition, when we asked 18 men and women of Generation Z aged 25 to 500 nationwide about the differences in child-rearing support depending on the municipality, 32% said, "I think it should be uniform." I think it should be uniform" (32.6%), "If anything, I think each municipality should have its own policies" (20.4%), "I think it's okay for each municipality to have its own policies. I think" (15%).
