More than 40 percent of Japanese do not believe that marriage should be born children

In marriage does not necessarily have to be born children, 42.8 per cent of participants thought the national public opinion poll, published the shocking results of which are today the Government of Japan. This is 6 percent more than shown the same sociological research conducted for the last time in 2007.

Overall, 38.7 percent of men and 46.5 per cent of women in the Land of the Rising Sun considers it quite a situation when married people have no children. The most radical group on this issue – the fair sex in the age of 20 to 40 years. More than 60 percent of them hold this view.

According to the survey, 55 percent of Japanese do not share the opinion that the husband should always make money, and his wife work at home. They believe that the distribution of responsibilities within the family may be just the opposite.

Made already seriously concerned government: natural population decline in Japan, first recorded in 2005, is rapidly gaining momentum. Only in 2008 the number of deceased people in the country exceeded the number of births at 45 thousand 914 people. This is a record for Japan for all time of such statistics, ie since 1947.