I’ve got you Babe
Children… the joy and headache of all parents out there. Yes, even to our own parents 
The Singapore government is back again with declarations of “new package of measures” to (hopefully) increase the number of babies born to Singaporeans by next month. When will they ever get the message that some things can’t be forced? Who in their right mind would want to give birth to children just because the government will give them a certain sum of money per child? Is this some sort of human barter?
Y! Singapore Editors has once again asked the Singaporean community what their concerns were with regards to getting married and having a family in Singapore. While the question is still open for people to comment, I heartily agree with some of the users when they stress that the reason to have children should be based on whether you genuinely love and would like to have children. As thinkbig & talkbig says, “Why create another human just because someone pays you to do so?”; langzi88 muses “Alas, if it [equating a child to being an asset] has to come to that, life has no meaning anymore.”; and Friendly neighbor reminds us that “Having kids should be a personal love and desire for them, not one made because the government is giving out incentives.”
All these I fully agree, while high cost of living is a big factor for many in the community, let’s not forget the fundamental reason why we want children: because we love them unconditionally. 
My cheeky but lovable nephew and niece.
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at this rate… we’ll have, currently 20%, of our population “imported”….
10 years later about 40%….
Therefore, and at this rate, the true Singaporean (80% now, and 60% 10 years later) will be the one shouldering the aging population
Please note the numbers are not sourced, it’s just a number as a reference)
And therefore, the more Singaporeans making complaints about this problem about shouldering the aging population.
Therefore, in business sense, it’s viable to open Aging Home, and get Singapore companies to sponsors them and some gov tax to support these Homes.
So what do we expect in the near future?
Or even sooner, or even now…
- Caucasian in neighborhood schools, Koreans kids in Secondary school, etc…
- Approximately about 1 Million people would call Singapore their 2nd home, be it they get PR, Citizenship or not.
- 5% of people born in Singapore would migrate. This will increase.
- It’ll not be surprise to have kids with funny surname soon, but they look locals, and they speak dialect or other language other than English, Mandarin, Malay, Tamil, or Hokkien…
well i said alot, and it’s quite late.. hee
I have more to say…
Anyway… love kids, they could brighter your day, worth having them around, some things that money can’t buy.
Hi Richard!
Ya, I agree, let’s start setting up businesses dealing with the aging generation! Soon we’ll be like Japan, the silver-haired generation out-stripping the young and able. We need to make Singapore a better place for the Aged and not extending the employable age and making them work till their death! :O Let’s take care of the elderly…
cheers!
ReiShin
whoaa… we have new method to have much money… :LOL:
@ Joandi – Hehehe.. no harm thinking of every and all probabilities!
If we reference from US and Japan.
US – Baby Boomers
after WWII, soldiers came back and started family, with many kids. That’s 1945-1950s..
These kids grew up and the population increase substantially.
By 1960s, (one theory) becos of the boom in babies from that era, gov send them to war, the Vietnam War.
Now these boomers are on their retirement age.
if you create a graph and compare to the Gen X, Gen Y, you’ll see a mushroom balloon as the age increase.
Number of children supporting their parents ratio would be close to 1:1. Therefore the gov policy would have to take place and to work.
One way, tax the working adults. That’s you and your spouse. Next generation, it’ll be your only son or daughter doing the same, if you are lucky.
If not, you better start saving.
Japan is another countries similar to US. They have a culture of being tidy and living life with a meaning.
The way I put it. Literally means, drinking Green Tea, enjoy the country side lifestyle, knowledge of herbs and eating right.
They slowed down in birth rate since WWII and aging population could reach 90 or 100 year old… wow.
Having 1 to 10 living till the age of 100 is a wonder. Having 100,000 of them living up to 100 is government, society or family problem?
Singapore’s population is above 4mil, under 5 mil currently. Create 2 graphs, 1 with low birth rate and 1 with higher birth rate. Let’s see will be have a mush room or pear shape graph.
Give birth in Singapore is a no no for me and my wife cause we don’t want to stuck in thesecountry for the rest of our live
Unfortunately we are true blue Singaporean who be leaving singapore in two more years.
then can have baby
Regards
as for me singapore is not a good place to raise kids
as the population is above the roof top!!
everything here is so expensive. so what the garment give u money if u give birth. their reason we lack of young people in future?
well me a my family planning to migrate out of here then can have as many babies as we like…
one words if u planning to migrate out of here don’t have babies chances u be stuck here
oh ya i belive the population in sg is more then 8 million