How to promote marriage and birth rate
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Solving the low birth rate is quite easy and well within the government's means.
( Btw, increasing the birth rate means increasing the Singaporean CHINESE birth rate, as the Malays are reproducing quite happily, thank you very much. No studying for them- too busy baby making to study ;) )
Basically you give a lot more money.
The current baby bonus is quite low- $4000 to 6000. Even Australia gives roughly twice as much.
This is what I propose.
For the next 3 years, every second baby onwards results in $500,000 being given to the parents, under the following conditions:
1. Parents are married at least 2 years.
2. Parents have degrees. (this can be modified to include poly tech diploma holders, but it's the Chinese who need to be encouraged remember?)
Now last year, about 3,000 people were eligible under the baby bonus scheme. Usually about 36,000 to 40,000 babies are born each year.
By offering to make instant half millionaires of couples, this should triple or quadruple over the 3 years to around 120,000 babies per year.
Can the Govt afford it?
Hell yes.
Say 80,000 of the 120,000 are 2nd or 3rd children (not 1st born)
80,000 x $500,000 is $40 billion per year.
Over 3 years is $120 billion.
Currently Temasek has around $200 to 300 billion.
Thus for a 3 year investment, they vastly increase the wealth of the Singaporean Chinese, they get huge increases in population in just 3 years- no need to give PR or citizenship to foreigners, and they will even increase the boys available for NS in the future.
Problem solved.
Does anyone else have any other solutions? :)
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Can be discriminatory? Such that only Chinese entitle to the half mil.
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all programmes of subsidies have failed ......we need a balanced gender policy than an ovremphasized women charter to reduce fears of commitment on the part of men as well...financials only solve half the problems
nothing has been mentioned except most significant developments have only been done to spruce up for women....
how could the system assure men into getting the marriage without undue marriage liabilities?
Once again, AWARE has been trying to promote more equal gender policies...naturally...because for the obvious reason that men's side has been largely neglected....
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the rationale is simple....u make it difficult for men....your daughters will be made difficult in turn...
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Free medical expenses and free school books, uniforms till they reach 18.
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Originally posted by likeyou:
Free medical expenses and free school books, uniforms till they reach 18.
Materialism has affected the Singaporean couple's perception of a "good" life; is it no longer the traditional mindset of starting a family and raising kids. The idea of enjoying life with your spouse or even yourself seems pretty good, particularly if Singaporeans have the ability to take care of themselves in the future; highly plausible if we consider that Singapore has pretty high standards of living.
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Our mps should study how each country help the couples with babies, what incentive they give them.
For instances, free medical jab, heavily subsidised medical care, free transport for mother and baby. Free school books and uniforms if not heavily subsidised. Take care of babies till they reach U.
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No one has a comment on my idea?
I don't see why offering $500,000 per 2nd baby onwards is a bad idea. They can do it every 1-2 decades, and they would never have a birth rate problem (although the demographers would have a field day working out how it affects their age graphs)
Working parents get what they want, the Singaporean Government gets what they want.
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Learn from finland...free high quality education for all....top healthcare to all sG citizens....then we will see birth rate moving up
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i think i need to make a end to this.
1)malay enjoy free study till end of sec school.
ans)thats y they are giving so many birth
2)all the baby bonus how much how much is gov say one.
ans)they are all invisble money that cannot be touch till certain age.maybe poly?
3)coming red packet also invisble money
ans)we wan to see the money so that we will feel secure.
4)some of the young adults pay are too low.
ans)we need some minimum pay polices.
5)subsidise is too little for the mother.
ans)too little till have or don have also no diff.
6)why so little money is spend on birth rate problem?
ans)all money all given to USA for protection and warehouse fee for their submarine.
7)birth rate problem is nt a big problem for them ,their power is more impt
ans)thats y they give us some shit money b4 elation so that they can continue to control us.
they talk and talk say is big problem .but actually they don care,cos after they die,the problem will be pass to next PM.