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Chapter 167 The Problem of the Daughter Tower
"When the child is older and can eat, we won't have to spend so much money, right?" Wu Qingping had raised a child before, so he knew something about it.

"You can raise your children this way, but how can it be possible here? When they are a few months old, they have to enroll them in swimming classes. Children of a few months old are born with the ability to swim. If you give them a swimming ring, they will paddle by themselves. Parents who have the means will enroll them."

"Hearing what you said, I want to enroll our children. Is it expensive?"

"I don't know either, but I know it's charged by the hour."

"anything else?"

"When they are one or two years old, they should enroll in early childhood education classes to train their reaction and discrimination abilities."

"This should be reported. What else?" For the good of the child, Tang Wenhao felt it was necessary to report it.

"When they are two or three years old, they can sign up for interest classes, such as painting, dancing, gymnastics, martial arts, musical instruments, and even horse riding and archery. Each of these costs thousands or tens of thousands of yuan in tuition each year. If other families have signed up for all of them, then we must sign up for one or two of them."

"Can ordinary people sign up?" Tang Wentao asked.

"Anyone can sign up as long as they have money."

"That's great. Common people in our area can't find anyone to teach you even if you have money. Those who know how to do these things have been hired away by rich families long ago. It's okay if it's a little more expensive."

"It's good, but it's too expensive! I haven't even mentioned kindergarten yet. Children here have to go to kindergarten when they are two or three years old. The annual tuition is 20,000 to 30,000 yuan. If you go to a bigger city, it's even more expensive."

"With this kind of support, a family can only support one child." You don't even have to do the math. If you don't earn enough, you really can't support a second child.

"Not to mention the money, even if there is no one to take care of the child at home, the mother has to stay at home to take care of the child full-time. This is also the reason why many families are unwilling to have more children." This is the reason why many modern people only have one child.

"Do women here still need to go out to work?" Tang Wentao was surprised.

"Of course they have to work! Several girls in our supermarket are working. Otherwise, why would they stay at home to wash clothes and cook after studying for more than ten or twenty years? Especially Sister Liu, because she studied medicine, she is still studying in her thirties. Don't you think it's a waste to let her stay at home to take care of the children?"

"Doctor Liu's medical skills are better than those of the imperial physicians. No one would agree to let her stop being a doctor."

"Of course, Sister Liu is proficient in both Chinese and Western medicine, and her attainments are quite good, otherwise she wouldn't be able to be chosen in the supermarket."

"Then how do you make each couple have only one child? Don't you do it by abortion? That's very harmful to the body. Drinking contraceptive soup is also harmful to the body!" Tang Wentao was married before, and he had two children in three years, and three children in five years. His wife's health is not as good as before, and the little boy is already half a year old. She is afraid that she will get pregnant again by accident.

But this young man is full of vigor and vitality, and he has no physical problems. He also has to have sex, so it is only a matter of time before he gets pregnant. Tang Wentao said that it would be better to wait and have a baby. Even if there are servants to help, the wife will still have to worry a lot. That's why he asked this question.

"Contraception! If you still plan to have children in the future, you can use a milder contraceptive method. Some people who no longer plan to have children can get sterilized. It is convenient and cheap. Many people here use this method."

"Won't it hurt?"

"It's basically harmless to the body. What I just wanted to tell you is that those of you who have already given birth to five or six, seven or eight children can do the sterilization technology. This way, you won't have children every year. If you do have children, you can't afford to raise them, and it's not good for women's health."

"This may be difficult to implement." Tang Wentao said.

"It's not mandatory, it's voluntary. I don't think everyone wants to have endless births. And I'm just saying that you must have someone who can do this operation. There's no medical class this time, so I don't know when it will be promoted to your place."

"When we were free in the supermarket, we discussed the issue of the daughter tower in your area. Perhaps only the promotion of sterilization can completely solve the problem."

"Yes! Every family in my old village had at least five or six children. Some families now have more than ten children. In recent years, some have been sent to the Daughter Tower. There is really no other way. The more children they have, the poorer they become. But there is no other way."

Wu Qingping was guarding the daughter tower. He knew that many families were really in the point of not being able to make ends meet, and sending their children away was not a solution. Was it better for one person to die, or for everyone to starve to death together?

Some women are so cruel that they go to the pharmacy to buy a dose of strong medicine. After taking it, they will indeed not be able to have children, but their bodies will be ruined and they can't do anything. They still have to take good care of the baby. It would be better to just give birth and throw it away. Therefore, most people will not use this method.

I don't know if it's the Feng Shui here, but the women here are very fertile. There are basically no infertile women. Every family has children one after another, with a frequency of one child a year or two years. They give birth until they are about 40 years old, and some are still giving birth in their 40s.

"Third brother, this matter is really serious. Let me tell you this! Our village is so poor now. In less than two years, every family will send their children to the Daughter Tower." Wu Qingping felt that it was necessary to tell Tang Wentao about this matter. Tang Wentao was now the local official.

"It's not that serious, right?" There are daughter towers all over the country, but Tang Wentao couldn't imagine every family sending their children there. Wouldn't the government report him to death by then?

"How come it's not that serious? I've observed dozens of families in our village. Basically, they have new children every year, but their income has not increased. For example, the family at the entrance of the village, the first family you see when you enter the village, now has thirteen people in the family. Now the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are both pregnant. Next year, they will have two more children. But do you think they can still afford to raise a child?"

Wu Qingping went on to say, "And if you go and see, the women of childbearing age in our village are either pregnant or have just given birth. So I guess every family will give away their children in two years."

Tang Wentao was a little dumbfounded. This population is also a political achievement! This is also the sterilization surgery proposed by Wang Yue just now. Tang Wentao first said that it cannot be promoted. No one in power is willing to give away the political achievements he has obtained. As for poverty, it is not like being an official to suffer poverty. What is there to be afraid of?
But if every family sends their children to the daughter tower, this will also be a stain on his political career. How poor must his governing ability be to make every family unable to raise children. It seems that this political achievement is not so easy to get!
The family only funded the daughter tower that Wu Qingping was guarding, and he had to figure out the rest himself, but he had no idea for the moment.