For some reason people in Taiwan don’t really seem interested in having children. The country has experienced a decining birth rate for years now and is well and truly on its way to being burdened with the ecnomic and social dilemmas that accompany an ageing population.
Is the cost of raising kids in Taiwan too great in the face of stangnant wages? Are today’s young adults rejecting the notion that they were only born to look after their parents and provide for them when they got old? Has puppy and small dog ownership replaced the notion of what it’s like to be an actual parent altogether?
I of course don’t have the answers to these questions and the greater issue at large any more than the rest of you do. One possible answer however might lie in Taiwan’s toddler targeted retail sector:
Far be it from my childless self to dole out parenting advice (I do have a small dog though) but I’m pretty sure if you’re going to be feeding your kids shoes, they ain’t gunna be your kids for too long.
Or worse, dead.
Spotted at trendy upmarket childrens boutique store ‘Les Enphants’ to market ‘My Nuno’ shoes, one can only wonder what other mangled parenting advice these stores must be feeding Taiwan’s parents.
Maybe the Chinese won’t have to invade after all, they can just wait till Taiwan’s begging them to send their “we’re fed up of the one child policy” folk here to breed.
“Death by shoe ingestion”, what a horrible sounding way to go.