These people conducting the surveys must be either be blind, or badly in need of reading glasses. You can put the answers or causes in front og their faces, and they will still not see it... or refuse to see the actual cause of low birth rates.
How long are they going to deny it, before they finally admits that it is Costs of Living??? How long, can they Dance Around The Issue?? Till the music stops???
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The baby out of reach
Now even less educated women don't want children
Tan Hui Leng
[email protected]THERE are no surprises on this score any more — just resigned sighs.
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Singapore's fertility woes may well persist if one goes by the results from the Singapore Women's Pregnancy Survey 2007, which revealed that one in four women in the reproductive age group does not intend to have a child.
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And when it came to women without tertiary education, this tendency was even higher. Almost half of them — 44 per cent — indicated that they did not plan to have children.
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"We didn't expect this," said the principal investigator of the study, Dr Tan Thiam Chye. "Previously, we had thought that it was the higher educated women that did not want children."
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He said it was possible that women with lower education had financial difficulties, which made them reluctant to give birth.
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The joint study by the South West Community Development Council (CDC) and the Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society of Singapore (OGSS) surveyed 268 female residents aged between 16 to 60 years, staying in the constituencies of the CDC. Of these, 42 per cent were married, the rest were single and 66 per cent had tertiary education.
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The majority of women (70.5 per cent) with tertiary education were keen to have children while only 56.4 per cent of women with secondary and primary education wanted children. Their mean ideal age for having the first child was at 27 years old while the mean ideal number of children was 2.3.
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"While it augurs well that more tertiary educated women are now contemplating babies, it is worrisome that one in four women does not want any children at all," said Dr Tan on the sidelines of the launch of the People's Association Women's Executive Committee book, Women Empowering Community: 40 Years in Grassroots.
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The study also suggests that 31.8 per cent of women with tertiary education — almost a third of them — have had pregnancy-related depression, compared with just 16.4 per cent of those with secondary education.
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"This may be due to the stress of adjusting to motherhood for these women who are otherwise competent and often high achievers in other area," said psychiatrist Dr Helen Chen, an OGSS member.
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Of those who said they did not want a child, 67 per cent cited reluctance to change their current lifestyles as the reason while another 20 per cent quoted financial difficulties.
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"The survey shows that women often grapple with a number of often competing demands and desires when considering whether to have children," said the Mayor of South West District, Dr Amy Khor.
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"Looking ahead, the CDC hopes to work with the OGSS and other organisations to organise programmes and activities that could promote marriage and procreation."
Now even less educated women don't want children
Tan Hui Leng
[email protected]THERE are no surprises on this score any more — just resigned sighs.
.
Singapore's fertility woes may well persist if one goes by the results from the Singapore Women's Pregnancy Survey 2007, which revealed that one in four women in the reproductive age group does not intend to have a child.
.
And when it came to women without tertiary education, this tendency was even higher. Almost half of them — 44 per cent — indicated that they did not plan to have children.
.
"We didn't expect this," said the principal investigator of the study, Dr Tan Thiam Chye. "Previously, we had thought that it was the higher educated women that did not want children."
.
He said it was possible that women with lower education had financial difficulties, which made them reluctant to give birth.
.
The joint study by the South West Community Development Council (CDC) and the Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society of Singapore (OGSS) surveyed 268 female residents aged between 16 to 60 years, staying in the constituencies of the CDC. Of these, 42 per cent were married, the rest were single and 66 per cent had tertiary education.
.
The majority of women (70.5 per cent) with tertiary education were keen to have children while only 56.4 per cent of women with secondary and primary education wanted children. Their mean ideal age for having the first child was at 27 years old while the mean ideal number of children was 2.3.
.
"While it augurs well that more tertiary educated women are now contemplating babies, it is worrisome that one in four women does not want any children at all," said Dr Tan on the sidelines of the launch of the People's Association Women's Executive Committee book, Women Empowering Community: 40 Years in Grassroots.
.
The study also suggests that 31.8 per cent of women with tertiary education — almost a third of them — have had pregnancy-related depression, compared with just 16.4 per cent of those with secondary education.
.
"This may be due to the stress of adjusting to motherhood for these women who are otherwise competent and often high achievers in other area," said psychiatrist Dr Helen Chen, an OGSS member.
.
Of those who said they did not want a child, 67 per cent cited reluctance to change their current lifestyles as the reason while another 20 per cent quoted financial difficulties.
.
"The survey shows that women often grapple with a number of often competing demands and desires when considering whether to have children," said the Mayor of South West District, Dr Amy Khor.
.
"Looking ahead, the CDC hopes to work with the OGSS and other organisations to organise programmes and activities that could promote marriage and procreation." Now even less educated women don't want children
Tan Hui Leng
[email protected]THERE are no surprises on this score any more — just resigned sighs.
.
Singapore's fertility woes may well persist if one goes by the results from the Singapore Women's Pregnancy Survey 2007, which revealed that one in four women in the reproductive age group does not intend to have a child.
.
And when it came to women without tertiary education, this tendency was even higher. Almost half of them — 44 per cent — indicated that they did not plan to have children.
.
"We didn't expect this," said the principal investigator of the study, Dr Tan Thiam Chye. "Previously, we had thought that it was the higher educated women that did not want children."
.
He said it was possible that women with lower education had financial difficulties, which made them reluctant to give birth.
.
The joint study by the South West Community Development Council (CDC) and the Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society of Singapore (OGSS) surveyed 268 female residents aged between 16 to 60 years, staying in the constituencies of the CDC. Of these, 42 per cent were married, the rest were single and 66 per cent had tertiary education.
.
The majority of women (70.5 per cent) with tertiary education were keen to have children while only 56.4 per cent of women with secondary and primary education wanted children. Their mean ideal age for having the first child was at 27 years old while the mean ideal number of children was 2.3.
.
"While it augurs well that more tertiary educated women are now contemplating babies, it is worrisome that one in four women does not want any children at all," said Dr Tan on the sidelines of the launch of the People's Association Women's Executive Committee book, Women Empowering Community: 40 Years in Grassroots.
.
The study also suggests that 31.8 per cent of women with tertiary education — almost a third of them — have had pregnancy-related depression, compared with just 16.4 per cent of those with secondary education.
.
"This may be due to the stress of adjusting to motherhood for these women who are otherwise competent and often high achievers in other area," said psychiatrist Dr Helen Chen, an OGSS member.
.
Of those who said they did not want a child, 67 per cent cited reluctance to change their current lifestyles as the reason while another 20 per cent quoted financial difficulties.
.
"The survey shows that women often grapple with a number of often competing demands and desires when considering whether to have children," said the Mayor of South West District, Dr Amy Khor.
.
"Looking ahead, the CDC hopes to work with the OGSS and other organisations to organise programmes and activities that could promote marriage and procreation." Now even less educated women don't want children
Tan Hui Leng
[email protected]THERE are no surprises on this score any more — just resigned sighs.
.
Singapore's fertility woes may well persist if one goes by the results from the Singapore Women's Pregnancy Survey 2007, which revealed that one in four women in the reproductive age group does not intend to have a child.
.
And when it came to women without tertiary education, this tendency was even higher. Almost half of them — 44 per cent — indicated that they did not plan to have children.
.
"We didn't expect this," said the principal investigator of the study, Dr Tan Thiam Chye. "Previously, we had thought that it was the higher educated women that did not want children."
.
He said it was possible that women with lower education had financial difficulties, which made them reluctant to give birth.
.
The joint study by the South West Community Development Council (CDC) and the Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society of Singapore (OGSS) surveyed 268 female residents aged between 16 to 60 years, staying in the constituencies of the CDC. Of these, 42 per cent were married, the rest were single and 66 per cent had tertiary education.
.
The majority of women (70.5 per cent) with tertiary education were keen to have children while only 56.4 per cent of women with secondary and primary education wanted children. Their mean ideal age for having the first child was at 27 years old while the mean ideal number of children was 2.3.
.
"While it augurs well that more tertiary educated women are now contemplating babies, it is worrisome that one in four women does not want any children at all," said Dr Tan on the sidelines of the launch of the People's Association Women's Executive Committee book, Women Empowering Community: 40 Years in Grassroots.
.
The study also suggests that 31.8 per cent of women with tertiary education — almost a third of them — have had pregnancy-related depression, compared with just 16.4 per cent of those with secondary education.
.
"This may be due to the stress of adjusting to motherhood for these women who are otherwise competent and often high achievers in other area," said psychiatrist Dr Helen Chen, an OGSS member.
.
Of those who said they did not want a child, 67 per cent cited reluctance to change their current lifestyles as the reason while another 20 per cent quoted financial difficulties.
.
"The survey shows that women often grapple with a number of often competing demands and desires when considering whether to have children," said the Mayor of South West District, Dr Amy Khor.
.
"Looking ahead, the CDC hopes to work with the OGSS and other organisations to organise programmes and activities that could promote marriage and procreation."
with their huge payroll, i doubt they are really concern about it, even some of the minister children doesn't even want to come back to singapore