Although due to overcrowding, families today decide to have, for the most part, only one child, the burden left on them seems too much if viewed from a distance.
The study “Families in Spain, an analysis of their Social and Economic reality in recent decades (1975-2017)” presented by the Acción Familiar association, indicates that in the last decade the only child model has been normalized: “ Before the problem was having the second, just like now, but nowadays, as it is normal to have one, we began to observe that there is also a growth in those families that do not have any descendants ”, he details.
It highlights that 30 percent of couples have a child; This absence has consequences in the educational and economic fields, but also in the responsibilities that he will have as an adult.
First, because the parents will only receive care from a child when they are older, also “if they decide to separate and have new partners, the only child must take care of their parents, their partners and their grandparents twice. according to the link established with them ”, he points out.
They also point out that there is a tendency to have children and then get married. Experts believe that, in many cases, this is because “single mothers” receive more help from the government, and at the same time, because they live with their partners, their children receive the benefits of a family without a legal link between them.