In Malaysia, muslims are allowed to have four wives, though it is not legally acceptable, many are keeping them subtledly quiet about it and the population growth in the past decade was impressive!
May be the Singapore government should try out such move to allow Singaporean males(weekend husbands) who could afford it to marry more than one wife and no government subsidies are necessary for those babies born to such families. Such polygamous concept may sound absurd but it can be part of a win win solution to the procreation problem facing Singapore.
Many Chinese Singaporeans are worried that the latest measures will 'backfire' in the years to come as each racial family's interest differs. It is openly known that Chineses are more interested and working hard in making more money, whereas the Malays are more family oriented and they love babies and usually they work very hard in making more babies and they are very sucessful in that. The Indian community are more balanced in their venture, they excel in many respectable fields and their population growths are quite moderate.
The ever changing policies of the ministry of eduation seems to be one of the main deterence to the baby growth in Singapore as the pressure it generated make many family think twice of having more babies. The ministry should reconsider the necessity of those school rankings, EM1, EM2, EM3, and streaming exercise which brought tremendous stress to most Singapore families. Jack Neo's movies might have highlighted some of them.
It may be too early to tell how successful those government measures will bear fruits in the near future, unless or until more life is added to the hectic working schedule of most Singaporean family!
Right...that depends on whether us females want to marry too....and not many like polygamous men
like one woman , many husband?
I propose a better idea...
Why not ask women to donate eggs... and male donate sperm and we can create babies which will be under the care of surrogate parents who yearn to have children but are unable to biologically?
With the advent of science, I believe this is not difficult...
Any one here has the statistics of how high the rates are for test tube babies ?