Why Singapore’s singles have a stake in its new baby push
Raising a child has been given the spotlight in Singapore’s overhauled parenthood policies. Will everyone buy into this?
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Singapore’s new parenthood policies come close to treating child-rearing as a public service, says the writer.
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The One Big Thing in Prime Minister Lawrence Wong’s National Day Rally speech, the SG Child Support Package, will attract attention well beyond Singapore for several reasons.
First, while it may have become a poster child for ultra-low fertility in the developed world, Singapore is refusing to tang ping, or lie flat, on the problem. Rather than conclude that public policy has run out of answers to falling birth rates, the Republic is willing to try new approaches.
