Two children still need package of policies supporting in an all-round way

Experts say the transformation of family planning work should be completed as soon as possible

The 2015-11-05

Source: health

Report from our correspondent (reporter gan bei bei) on November 4, by the China population society comprehensive two child policy and population development seminar held in Beijing. Experts believe that employment, taxation, public policy, such as income distribution to a certain extent restriction effect on people's childbearing willing. Two child policy is expected to achieve full of population and social development goals, to form a package of form a complete set of policy support.

"Over the past few years, in double the two boys and two child alone in the process of policy implementation, there are a lot of family can comply with the policy gave birth to two children chose not to be born, the main reason lies in the economic, care for children, women their own career development pressure." Population and development policy research center of fudan university, professor peng xizhe said the government should be conducted in the nurseries, the construction of the public kindergarten tilt policy and increasing investment, at the same time promote men involved in the process of birth and parenting. Such as the men and women both parties share the maternity leave, maternity leave can be flexible arrangement in the family.

Zheng zhenzhen, a researcher at the Chinese academy of social sciences institute of population and Labour economics points out that at present, in all kinds of social security, the lowest birth insurance coverage. A large part of birth insurance is used to pay for female worker maternity leave with pay. Ensure full two children "New Deal" implemented, improve the system of birth insurance, expanding coverage shall be taken into account.

"Open up the two children, women, and women at increased, also may appear small fertility accumulation, this put forward higher request to the maternal and child health work." Sociology department of Peking University, professor lu jiehua advice in conform to the policies of child-bearing age population concentrated area, increase the supply of maternity beds, medical institutions appropriate to increase the number of medical staff. At the same time, increase the infant early education institutions and relevant professional staff, build more breastfeeding in public restrooms, etc.

Said zheng zhenzhen, under the new situation, transformation of family planning work should be completed as soon as possible, will be focused on help couples of child-bearing age timely gave birth to healthy children, to avoid unwanted pregnancy and abortion, attention for various reasons, which cannot meet second child birth couples plan, help them achieve family family planning.

Have two children, and many women may also face employment pressure. Peng xizhe believes that contact of female employment discrimination is still widespread, unit of choose and employ persons is likely to be its interest is not hiring women, and comprehensive the implementation of the two children would be likely to aggravate the invisible discrimination. The government on the policy to do early prevention, with strong policy measures to solve the problem of employment discrimination against women.