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The birth rate has been falling from 0.78 last year to 0.70 in the second quarter of this year. The government has recently been strengthening various cash support such as childcare leave benefits and parental allowances, but it is not enough to increase the birth rate. Not only has the number of marriages decreased, but even married couples are increasingly postponing childbirth. Only 54.2% of newlyweds who have been married for less than 5 years have had children, and more than half of them are dual-income couples. Given the characteristics of our country where the rate of births outside of marriage is only 2%, it is time to look into the reasons why people do not have children even after getting married. Is it because they are all 'DINKs' who do not have children on purpose? 9th Floor Current Affairs examines the cases of dual-income couples who dream of having children but are deeply troubled by realistic reasons, and dual-income couples who are actually raising one child, and examines what practical measures are needed to ease their concerns and burdens of childrearing through examples such as those from Silicon Valley in the United States. #Dual-income couple #DINK #DINK #No children #Ultra-low birth rate #Low birth rate #Low birth rate #Birth rate #0.78 people #0.70 people #Work-life balance Reporter: Cha Ju-ha Filming: Joseongi Kang Woo-yong Lee Su-min Video editing: Kang Jeong-hee CG: Jeong Ye-na Researcher: Kim Bo-hyeon Kim Ye-eun AD: Yoo Hwa-young Kim Young-il Broadcast date: October 22, 2023 9th floor Current Affairs Bureau