ARW Blogging Assignment 2

     My revised thesis statement for Essay 1 is "The Japanese government has to create and implement specific public policies that encourage and enable families to have more babies to improve and maintain the economy for the future", and the three main supporting ideas for this thesis are as follows. The first supporting point for my thesis is that the government has to give financial support to parents. Since many people think child rearing takes a lot of money, they don't try to have babies. I think the government should give child allowence to parents or implement a tax reduction. The second supporting point is that they have to provide facilities where children are taken care of. Since the number of dual-income families is increasing, they have to ask someone to look after their babies or children. Now, it's getting difficult to find a day carecenter, the government has to build facilities where children are taken care of. The third supporting point is that they have to chage the current trend of seeing childcare leave. Many fathers tend not to take it because of the pressure from their companies or the idea that mothers should take care of children. The government needs to get rid of  this trend from Japanese society so that parents can bring up their children with less stress.