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曾经，中国的小孩是他们父母的安全保障——养儿防老。Once, Chinese children were their parents' safety net, home-grown pension plans.

对他们来说，买一个孩子是一项投资——养儿防老。For them, buying a child is an investment to ensure they are taken care of in old age.

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这不如及时享乐，把多余的精力放在养儿防老上有意义。It makes more sense to live in the moment and put your energies into reproduction now.

而健在子女数和对“养儿防老”观念的态度则共同受到了队列作用的影响。While "the number of children alive" and "the attitude towards 'Bring up their children for old age'" are both influenced by the cohort effect.

存钱养老、养儿防老、农村社会养老保险等其他养老措施对农民工是否参加养老保险有一定的替代效用。Saving, having children against age and rural pension system seem as have some substitute effect on rural-urban workers participate pension system.

生产生活方式，养儿防老的观念，遵循先民习俗是幼子继承制长期存在的原因。It exists so long simply because of their production and life-style, the concept of supporting the elderly and following the customs of their ancestors.

不仅仅是事业，生活也是如此，生孩子干吗用的，相信不只是传统观念里的传宗接代和养儿防老，现在的孩子能不啃老已经是不易，为的是满足心理的需要-我需要孩子。Not only bussiness but also life is the same. Why most people have baby ?Only live and raising children for old time ?It is not easy to live by parents.

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在农村，人们都喜欢生儿子以便延续这个家族的姓氏而且还有一句老话叫养儿防老。In rural China, people prefer having boys as a way of continuing family names and because there is a belief that sons will support their parents when they are old.

此外，日本完善的社会保障体系，使得人们不必要“养儿防老”，这也是加入“丁克”家庭行列的日本年轻夫妇数量增多的重要原因。Moreover, Japan's perfect social security system, make people unnecessary "and", this also is to join the ranks of the "dink" family increasing number of Japanese young couple important reasons.

生育上的男孩偏好与传宗接代、养儿防老观依然重要，并对生育行为产生影响。The preference for boys and concepts of carrying on the family line and bringing up children to provide against old age are still very important and have influence upon the behavior of breeding.

在社会转型加快、人口流动频繁、独生子女时代到来的今天，“养儿防老”已无法解决当代农民养老问题。In the social transformation accelerated, population movements frequently and the arrival of the one-child era, "raise children to old age" has not solve the problem of contemporary old-age farmers.