GP DISCUSSIONS.

TOPIC: Birth dearth

After World War 2, Singapore faced a problem of increasing birth rate.Thus,the government came out with ideas to make a stop to this escalating problem.Example; Stop At Two,Three Or More If You Can Afford and etc.

When lesser babies are born per year, the social curve will not be balanced with the ageing population increasing while the birth rate decreasing.Hence,when the old passed away,Singapore's population will decrease.This will cause many internal problems in Singapore itself.

First,as singapore's only natural resource is only the people,our defence is heavily dependant on the people.With a declining brth rate, there will be fewer men available to be recruited in the Nation Service(NS). This will weaken Singapore's defence adversely.

Second,decreasing birth rate will result in ageing population.More resources will have to be used to take care of the senior citizens. Sinagpore will not produce enough talented people to sustain its development. Thus, more money will be invested on foreign talents which will lead to more unhapiness within Singapore as Singaporeans will think that the foreign talents are competing for jobs with them.

Thrid,policies like 'Graduate Mothers Scheme' were introduced to encourage graduates to have more children. This lead to unhappiness to the less-educated as they felt that they will be neglected under the policy. This scheme does not win support and thus being withdrew.

In conclusion,birth dearth is a very serious problem that Singapore is facing now.
With birth dearth,economy will weaken and society will decline.

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Labels: Birth Dearth

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