The 2 babies policy
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I still like the 2 babies policy in Singapore. When the couple giving more than that, there is a fine impose. This will have healthy birth control to our country.
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Singapore shrinking
With alarmingly fewer babies and more elderly, UN paints a stark picture for Singapore
Wednesday • March 21, 2007
Jasmine Yin
[email protected]
This is one ranking where Singapore would not want to be so high up the list.
Unfortunately, while it is behind South Korea, it is way ahead of other Asian contenders such as Malaysia and Hong Kong.
A United Nations report looking ahead to the years between 2045 and 2050 lists countries whose natural populations will grow most slowly. In fact, they will actually shrink.
So acute is Singapore's shortage of babies that there are only four countries in the world whose natural populations will fall at a faster rate. They are Ukraine, Bulgaria, Belarus and South Korea.
Even Japan, which has long struggled with a lack of babies, will shrink more slowly than Singapore.
This is "not a good thing", noted Environment and Water Resources Senior Parliamentary Secretary Dr Amy Khor, who sat on the committee behind the Baby Bonus package of pro-family incentives. She said that this finding "serves to confirm what we already know and have been trying to tackle".
Aside from the Baby Bonus — introduced in 2001 and enhanced in 2004 — the Government has been trying to attract more immigrants, added Dr Khor, who is also the Southwest District mayor.
Deputy Prime Minister Wong Kan Seng recently said Singapore has to attract immigrants to keep the economy humming.
Mr Wong, who chairs the National Population Committee, estimated that 10,000 to 12,000 new citizens a year is a "good number" to attract.
According to the report, by 2050, Singaporeans are projected to live up to the age of 84.6 years — 4.6 years more than the average life expectancy now. Japan, Hong Kong and Macau are the only Asian countries where longevity will supersede Singapore's by 2050.
Macau, Japan, South Korea and Singapore will also have the top four oldest populations in the world by 2050, with the median age ranging from 53.7 to 55.5. The median age is expected to rise by at least 12 years between 2005 and 2050 in 37 developing countries in Asia.
Ageing is most advanced in Europe, the report noted, and by 2050, the continent will have twice as many older people — those aged 60 and above — as children, or those below 15 years old. This combination will pose "major challenges for the social and economic adaptation of societies".
Population ageing is "accelerating" in Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.
In Asia, by 2040, the older people will outnumber the children. And, globally, by 2045, there is likely to be more older people than children "for the first time in history".
This is the "consequence of the long-term reductions in fertility and mortality" in the world, the report said.
Africa is the only region with a relatively young population. Its elderly people will be "far below" that of children in 2050, it added.
http://www.todayonline.com/pda/178572ag.htm
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Which decade are you living in right now?Originally posted by dreamykite:I still like the 2 babies policy in Singapore. When the couple giving more than that, there is a fine impose. This will have healthy birth control to our country. -
If you think deeply, it is really a good policy. Afterall, it is better to have less people mah
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The government apparently doesn't think so.Originally posted by dreamykite:If you think deeply, it is really a good policy. Afterall, it is better to have less people mah
So your opinion doesn't really matter.
Really. -
Cool...I love the fact that Sillypore will lesser babies.....I'd better go encourage all my friends not to have babies...then again...I don't they will have babies anyway as work life here is sucky that they barely have time for themselves, talk about having more babies....
Instead we should encourage more PRCs and Indians here to work and have babies so that we can freely give out PR status....that would certainly bump up our birth rate and thereby making Sillypore more dense in population numbers, make things more competitive in terms of jobs and drive prices sky high...that would be so fun...then those of us who can, will leave and see Sillypore from outside... -
I think the gahmen shouldn't interfere with the people too much.
Even fucking also want to ga jiao.... -
??Originally posted by Coquitlam:Cool...I love the fact that Sillypore will lesser babies.....I'd better go encourage all my friends not to have babies...then again...I don't they will have babies anyway as work life here is sucky that they barely have time for themselves, talk about having more babies....
Instead we should encourage more PRCs and Indians here to work and have babies so that we can freely give out PR status....that would certainly bump up our birth rate and thereby making Sillypore more dense in population numbers, make things more competitive in terms of jobs and drive prices sky high...that would be so fun...then those of us who can, will leave and see Sillypore from outside... -
Hanor! Skarly next time the govt will plant compulsory CCTV in all HDB masterbedroom. Then while couples are in the midst of fucking, there'll be a loud speaking nearby going, "Jia Yo! Jia Yo! Jia Yo!" which is made by the residential MPs.Originally posted by Hogzilla:Even fucking also want to ga jiao.... -
Have less babies...its better....no point having so many babies...
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Without Enough Population we are waitinng to die...Originally posted by dreamykite:If you think deeply, it is really a good policy. Afterall, it is better to have less people mah -
ya ya ya , agree! if that LEE hsien loong wants more babies, let him depend on the foreign talents whom he encourages and approves of their presence in Singapore to help give birth to contribute to the population. STupid goondu lee hsien loong!!Originally posted by Coquitlam:Have less babies...its better....no point having so many babies...
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dont think we will die, i think life will be better and lesser competition.Originally posted by banzie:Without Enough Population we are waitinng to die...
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No more baby boom pls. Save resources and less intense job competition in the future. -
what is the difference?
You dun listen to the govt dun produce more babies,they will just import ready made "citizens".
As if you really dun have babies,pop will actually drop.... -
Ask them to revise the law and lower down the legal age to have sex, since there are so many cases of teenagers being pregnant nowadays. Or make polygamy legal again.
Even wonder why in the older days, people can have a lot of kids? Beside the fact that was not much entertainment back then, other than piaking whole night long, it was also because the medical was not as advanced as now. So in order for them to have someone to take care of them when they grow old, they will want to have more kids, so that there will be a chance for a few children to grow up. This is the survival plan for all living things in the world.
Also in the olden days, people had the mindset that having a baby boy is way better than a baby girl, as they want someone who can carry on the family line, who can take care of old parents. A baby girl is a lability to them, which a good case study is to look at India. So, they will keep trying till a baby boy is born into the family. -
Singapore shrinking population because living here very pressure loh, especially when no money have to jump mrt, in africa the young population is always there because aids problem so big, most can't live into old age mah.Originally posted by ^tamago^:Africa is the only region with a relatively young population. Its elderly people will be "far below" that of children in 2050, it added. -
gov like to shoot themselves in the foot(short sighted policies)
last time 2 is enough policy - my parents suffered, no subsidies for 3rd child
den now 2 is not enough
other example like casino, racetrack(F1) -
HIDE! FLEE! SINGAPORE IS SHRINKING! WE'RE GETTING INVADED BY BANGLAHS!
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I tot now is invaded by vietnamese brides n PRCs.Originally posted by Keii:HIDE! FLEE! SINGAPORE IS SHRINKING! WE'RE GETTING INVADED BY BANGLAHS! -
You serious you want 2 wivesOriginally posted by tortoise55:Ask them to revise the law and lower down the legal age to have sex, since there are so many cases of teenagers being pregnant nowadays. Or make polygamy legal again.
Even wonder why in the older days, people can have a lot of kids? Beside the fact that was not much entertainment back then, other than piaking whole night long, it was also because the medical was not as advanced as now. So in order for them to have someone to take care of them when they grow old, they will want to have more kids, so that there will be a chance for a few children to grow up. This is the survival plan for all living things in the world.
Also in the olden days, people had the mindset that having a baby boy is way better than a baby girl, as they want someone who can carry on the family line, who can take care of old parents. A baby girl is a lability to them, which a good case study is to look at India. So, they will keep trying till a baby boy is born into the family. Double the headache wor~
If they actually fight for your attention is one thing but if they actually get along and you get henpecked by 2 women -
What the heck, i think got to many babies! LOOK at the amount of people at orchard road! If got more babies sure Singapore will become a Deadlock!
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DON'T GIVE THEM ANY IDEAS!!!!Originally posted by Chuichi Koshiramaru:Hanor! Skarly next time the govt will plant compulsory CCTV in all HDB masterbedroom. Then while couples are in the midst of fucking, there'll be a loud speaking nearby going, "Jia Yo! Jia Yo! Jia Yo!" which is made by the residential MPs. -
Originally posted by Chuichi Koshiramaru:Hanor! Skarly next time the govt will plant compulsory CCTV in all HDB masterbedroom. Then while couples are in the midst of fucking, there'll be a loud speaking nearby going, "Jia Yo! Jia Yo! Jia Yo!" which is made by the residential MPs.
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