During the final press conference, the president was asked about demography as “the main unsolved problem of Russians.” The journalist of the Orthodox channel “Spas”, who asked the question, noted that Russians “do not want to give birth” and “have forgotten how to build a family,” although the country has always had many children before.
Vladimir Putin replied that the “planning horizon” had become minimal for people, because “the Great Patriotic War and the collapse of the USSR inflicted a blow on demography.” The head of Russia considered this a “huge tragedy.”
At the same time, he did not agree with the fact that Russian women “have forgotten how to give birth.” “Here, I said, 91st, and then 2004 and 2006 – the birth was higher, it began to grow. And this was due to the improvement of the economic situation and the expansion of the planning horizon, “Putin said.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, according to Putin, “people” had a mood, just like after the Great Patriotic War. ” He recalled that “raising a baby to his feet is a difficult business and financially,” and noted that the goal of “all actions” of the authorities was “to support families with children.”
“Our task is to finalize the entire chain related to motherhood and childhood from birth to graduation in the near future. There is a gap regarding the age of the child, and we will close them in the next year and a half, ”the president promised.
He also pointed out that “all post-industrial countries” are now experiencing demographic difficulties. “Look at Europe,” Putin urged. – This is due to a change in the priorities of women of childbearing age. Education, career and then a child, and this is by the age of 30, and there you don’t think about the second ”.
According to him, not only governments, but also scientists do not know how to cope with the problem – “even demographers do not have definitive answers to these questions.” At the same time, he has an understanding that it is necessary to “support people financially.”
Putin also spoke about the “spiritual component” on which, in his opinion, families should be built. “Career and well-being are important things, but the understanding that happiness, the joy of fatherhood and motherhood is higher than material well-being — this understanding should be gradually introduced into the minds of our children,” the head of state said.
Finally, he once again condemned the West for changing attitudes towards the traditional family with a father and mother, urging to “look for an effective antidote to non-traditional values” that “penetrate from the outside” and “come inevitably” in today’s world, “with the Internet, with communications modern “.
From Putin’s point of view, this is growing like a snowball. “It’s just the same as a pandemic, a coronavirus infection. And new strains appear. And we can’t get away from this. If someone thinks that a woman and a man are one and the same. Well, for heaven’s sake. But there is some kind of common sense! ” – he said.
In sports, as the President noted, there are also these trends. “Women’s sports will cease to exist if male reassigned men are allowed to compete,” he predicted.
Source: Rosbalt
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