"Enormous" probs if S'poreans don't procreate: LKY
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SINGAPORE: Former Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew has expressed concerns over Singapore's low fertility rate.
He was speaking in Mandarin and English at the Tanjong Pagar-Tiong Bahru National Day celebration dinner on Saturday.
Mr Lee said Singapore's birth rates have been steadily declining.
He stressed that Singaporeans are not reproducing themselves.
Giving some simple statistics, Mr Lee said the Chinese reproduction rate is 1.08 - with two Chinese becoming one in the next generation.
For the Indians, the rate is 1.09, and for the Malays - 1.64.
"If we go on like that, this place will fold up, because there'll be no original citizens left to form the majority, and we cannot have new citizens, new PRs to settle our social ethos, our social spirit, our social norms. So my message is a simple one. The answer is very difficult but the problems, if we don't find the answers, are enormous," said Mr Lee.
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Oh man......things are so expensive, how do you suppose we can continue replace ourselves?
of cos we have to ensure we can afford to have children then make babies mah
Haizzzzzzz, if really Sg folds up, then.........
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I shudder to think that the next generation have to take up the burden of the older generation with the increasing cost of living and lower wages
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Originally posted by laurence82:
I shudder to think that the next generation have to take up the burden of the older generation with the increasing cost of living and lower wages
Same sentiments -
It's hard to take the truth, but this was the price we paid from decades ago, when we separated from M'sia, and when we then decided to the grow the "miracle economy".
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I have 5 kids... The old man is giving me "enormous" problems...
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Will having natural resources of our own save us?
Planting & harvesting palm oil since there is a huge demand for it
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Originally posted by Aneslayer:
I have 5 kids... The old man is giving me "enormous" problems...
same like me...
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who cares? i tot he they care? bring so many aliens in - keep bringing in lah!
fuking jibai cheena somemore
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unethical site!
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without a house, how to?
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Originally posted by Bikeforceful:
Low fertility rate is not a problem unique to only Singapura. Generally busy and stressful cities experience low birthrates. Americans don’t say” I am going to move to New York or Chicago to give birth and make babies for a family!”
Singapore’s case is slightly different because ther eis a lack of hinterland. Which is precisely why scare resource like land must be carefully “managed” so that people do not TOTALLY lose incentive to have babies here! How do we create or acquire more space for our people? How do we create space for ourselves in the world: globally yet not lose that home identity- the island nation Singapura?
It is a small island nation. There is no God given right, and/or gaurantee that it must exist or survive down the decades to come, unless there is strong political and people Will, steered by great leadership of exceptional innovative resourcefulness, grit determination drive and proactive vision in leading forward!
why busy and stressful? cos busy earning money to stay life, and cost of living going up due to businesses rental going up, challengers from less tahn 1k talents bring our salary dont. no natural resources and no land, say we have people? yeh right my foot if we have lots of people then why we need to bring in redundant talents? bulllah people also donl;t have that's why have to bring in less than 1k talents.they created thios mess, and now blame the own people
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hey hey
we are probably the only democratic country in the world where the government can blame the problems they created onto the people and get away with it
where is the world guiness record when we need it?
lol
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nope, we stop at 2
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Originally posted by laurence82:
hey hey
we are probably the only democratic country in the world where the government can blame the problems they created onto the people and get away with it
where is the world guiness record when we need it?
lol
unethical site -
"Enormous" probs if S'poreans don't procreate: LKY
If not for this fucking bastard's stop at 2 policy, Singapore wouldn't be in this population mess today.
Population control in Singapore
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_control_in_Singapore
Family Planning
Do you know …
On average, a baby was born in Singapore every 11 minutes in 1965!1
The high birth rates stretched facilities at the Kandang Kerbau Hospital (KKH). Lee Suk Ting, a Nursing Officer, recounted the situation in 1962: “The number of deliveries in KKH was at its peak, with an average of 100 deliveries per day. The number of beds available then fell far short of demand, and many deliveries were conducted with patients lying on the floor on mackintoshes or on transport trolleys. Patients in the early stages of labour sat for long hours on hard wooden benches waiting for a bed.” 2
Nearly all mothers with normal deliveries had to be discharged within 24 hours. In 1966, the number of deliveries reached a record high of 39,835 and won KKH a place in the Guinness Book of Records for the largest number of births in a single maternity facility – a record it held for 10 years.3
Recognising the potential impact of the high birth rates on the Republic's limited resources, Minister for Health, Mr. Yong Nyuk Lin, tabled a White Paper in Parliament in September 1965 and outlined aFive-year Mass Family Planning programme aimed at reducing the birth rate from 29.9 per thousand in 1965 to 20 per thousand in 1970.4 The Family Planning and Population Board (FPPB) was subsequently established in January 1966 to implement the recommendations in the White Paper. 5
The national policy then was to provide family planning facilities to all eligible married women in the 15-44 years age group, numbering about 180,000. A sum of S$1 million was allocated for the entire programme.6 Although the programme met with initial resistance, more than 156,000 eventually received family planning services.7 By the end of its third cycle in 1980, fertility rate had declined to 1.7 children per female population.8 By then, however, Singapore’s economic growth and aging population meant that it needed to maintain a sizeable workforce. The family planning programme was revised in 1986 to encourage Singaporeans to have more children.
Source MICAMr. Yong Nyuk Lin speaking at inauguration meeting of the
Family Planning and Population Board (FPPB) in January 1966.
Source FPPBNational Day Float decorated with family planning
campaign posters by FPPB in 1968.
Source FPPB
Family planning campaign posters produced between 1974-1983, to educate public on the advantages of small families and how that could be achieved with family planning. "Stop at Two" was the official slogan.1 Based on figures from the Family Planning and Population Board Annual Report 1965, p.5.
2 Paulin Koh, "History of Midwifery and O&G Nursing in Singapore" in The History of Obstetrics & Gynaecology in Singapore, ed. Tan Kok Hian and Tay Eng Hseon (Singapore: ARMOUR Publishing Pte Ltd, 2003), p. 373.
3 Dr Kelvin Tan Kok Hian, "The World’s Largest Maternity Hospital – How It All Began” in The History of Obstetrics & Gynaecology in Singapore, ed. Tan Kok Hian and Tay Eng Hseon (Singapore: ARMOUR Publishing Pte Ltd, 2003), pp. 48-50.
4 Speech by Mr Chua Sian Chin, Minister for Health, at the Conference on Regional Cooperation in Population and Family Planning on Thursday, 22 October 1970 at Kuala Lumpur. Source: Ministry of Culture.
5 Speech by Mr Yong Nyuk Lin, Minister for Health, at the official opening of the Working Group on Communication Aspects of Family Planning sponsored by ECAFE at the Conference Hall on Tuesday, 5 September 1967 at 10 am. Source: Ministry of Culture.
6 Ibid.
7Speech by Mr Chua Sian Chin, Minister for Health, at the Opening Ceremony of the Second Official Meeting of the Inter-Governmental Coordinating Committee, Southeast Asian Regional Cooperation in Family and Population Planning at the Hotel Equatorial on Monday, 21 February 1972 at 9 am. Source: Ministry of Culture.
8 Singapore Family Planning & Population Board, Fifteenth Annual Report, 1980, p. 2.
9 Parliamentary Debates Official Report, Second Session of the Sixth Parliament, Vol. 48, Sitting No. 7, “Oral Answers to Questions”, Declining Population Growth (Corrective Measures), 22 September 1986.http://www.a2o.com.sg/a2o/public/html/etc/07_family.htm
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we can fuck. but who feed?
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Really, i believe some of our expectations of our way of living is not needed or excessive
we dun need so much at all
when we take away these expectations, things could be better
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comon like what Fi wrote, we can fuck, but pls giv us koreans euqropens aermicans, japenis, no PRCs pls we had enuff of this
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not worth my time
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What enormous probs, they can continue with their foreign policy of bringing in foreigners to solve this prob what.
Threatening us? Come on, Singapore is not the only country in the whole world having low fertility rate. Hong Kong, Taiwan and other countries are having the same problem. Their govt do not have any policy like our govt to bring in influx of foreigners to deal with this fertility problem.
Kong cheow way/.
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Originally posted by laurence82:
hey hey
we are probably the only democratic country in the world where the government can blame the problems they created onto the people and get away with it
where is the world guiness record when we need it?
lol
Are you that certain Singapore is a democratic country? On democracy, Singapore scores very low according to the UN report.
Democracy to some only.
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Do you know how much $$$ it takes to raise a kid nowadays? Not everybody have a son that is a PM and earns millions of dollars a year. If the garment want us to have kids, concrete measures have to be taken and not just TALK....
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Ya yes, expensive, really, very! Not to mention the instant increasing in inflation rate in this place called Singapore during this global crisis is disturbing and discouraging child birth especially for financially unstable couples.