babies

leilan84 SG

sometimes, i just wonder......
why sg govt wants ppl to make more babies?
haha.. there may seems to be alot of benefits now...
but experience tells us that once the govt hits it's desired target,
things will go back to the same old days...
raise raise and raise.... marikita
just like after it won the election years back...

monkeybusiness SG

to me, no matter how attractive the packages seem to be, i will not be tempted. cos in singapore, or no matter where u go now, the standard of living is increasing and it will bring stress to the child. i cant bear to bring misery to someone else.

av98m SG

The government wants more babies so the the population numbers can remain stable or better yet increase. This is to ensure that we have enough cheap labour for local and foreign companies to exploit, and enough people contributing to their cpf accounts. Quality of life has nothing to do with it.

And yes, I agree that bringing a child into singapore may very well be an act of cruelty, seeing the direction that this country and the world in general is moving towards. The kindest thing you can do for your unborn children will be to make sure they remain unborn. Confused

P.S. And to the idiots who came with with the ludicrious target population of 8 milllion, a pox on all your houses! There's barely enough walking space in Singapore at its current population level.

Devil1976 SG

I think this would be a VERY TRUE REFLECTION of MANY SINGAPOREANS' THINKING.... Sometimes we just can't help to feel that we're being 'CHEATED'...

ULTIMATELY, if you can't lead a HAPPY LIFE here... How can you CONVINCE your children that they would be able to lead one...? BY GIVING THEM MORE STRESS THAN YOU'VE RECEIVED...?? Rolling Eyes

SilverPal SG

Perhaps you can help us by telling us what are the perks of being born in Sg as opposed to oversea?

Higher standard of living?
Higher cost I have to bear...

Safer country?
Limit of freedom. Gangersterism still alive. Profiteering at every possible chance.

Nicer people. Gracious society. Effluent population.
Try taking MRT during rush hour. If still not convinced, trying queuing up for sales.

I need help with finding more things to love about Sg.

MYPR SG

It will be the most cruel and stupid thing to do in singapore, i.e. Make babies to become another slave for the gov here.

Could anyone give a good reason for having baby in singapore?

The standard of living is ridiculously high and your kid go thru highly subsidized education which cost like a bomb given it should be subsidized for citizen and to graduate with degree or higher in end to be unemployed like what you see on the street of singapore. Why? Because, their salary is too high. Bosses preferred to hire FT in place of these local pple esp guy. Outsourcing is the way to go and cannot be escaped.

MYPR SG

This was what i had posted in another topic for reference :

Let me share a cruel hard fact gathered that can be seen in singapore irregardless of individual opinion of being proud or not proud to be a singaporean.

The number of foreign talent in most company are growing relative to the local. Reason, most company especially mnc are employing cheap labour from oversea especially india to do project. They employ a fresh graduate from india which cost them only around SGD 800 per month compared to a fresh graduate from local university at around SGD 2k+. So for the pay of one local fresh graduate, they can get 3 indian to do the same jobs. Once these indian came over and learned all the required skill to replace singaporean. The project will be outsource to the indian team setup in india. Operation like call center, administrative, IT work, many more etc all shifted to india leaving singaporean jobless. That's why you hear retrenchment here and there. Furthermore, the foreign talent also came over to singapore to compete with the local for jobs that has not or cannot be shifted. They are hardworking, less demanding, no NS liability, willing to take a lower salary compared to singaporean. So why these pple are willing to take on such a lower salary?

Let's see some statistical comparison.
Comparison between indian and singaporean fresh engineering graduate.
Indian Fresh Grad
Expected salary range : SGD 800 - 2000
Total Education cost until Tertiary Pre-U Level : SGD 200+
Total 4 year University Fee in india (Gov Subsidized) : SGD 900+
Total 4 year University Fee in india (Private) : SGD 1400+
Cost of living in India : Low
Cost of Meal in India : SGD 0.20 per decent meal
Housing in India : SGD 20,000 for a landed property
NS Liability : No
Hardworking : Yes work days and night

Note : Their one month pay plus allowance in singapore will cover their 4 year tertiary education fee. It is no wonder these indian dare not spend too much in singapore while working in singapore.

Singaporean Fresh Grad
Expected salary range : SGD 2000 - 2500
Total 4 year University Fee in Singapore (Gov Subsidized) : SGD 20,000 +
Cost of living in Singapore : High
Cost of Meal in Singapore : SGD 2 per decent meal
Housing in Singapore: SGD 150k for a HDB Flat Leasing
NS Liability : Yes
Hardworking : Depend

How long will it take for a singaporean fresh grad to pay off his university fee?

Why be a singaporean?

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skyfoo SG

the gov wants us singaporeans to have more babies because our replacement level is below the target 2.1 children. now we only have like 1.5-1.7. with lesser children, we will face lack of labour in the future and u shld guess the outcome of it. also, we will have less men serving ns. with less children in the future, we might have an ageing population. thus, we will have a greater group of ppls having to dependent on the working population. besides, with ageing population, we have to focus more on the eldery such as their needs. more facilities for them have to be built and with lesser working ppls, our economy will be strained. the lack of children also means the closure of schs, for the past few years more than 20 new schs were constructed. just a month ago, the newspaper reported that some pri sch enrolment for next yr is just 30. this just met the min requirement of a class. just imagine in the future when there are less kids.

drawer SG

Actually outside Singapore,children will be less stressful,why dont u born them in other countries?Give it a try man. Mr. Green

av98m SG

Well, as usual the government high up on its ivory tower is missing the whole point and trying to treat the symptoms instead of the disease. People are not having babies because they can barely support themselves, are living in an overcrowded environment, losing jobs to foreigners, seeing their real incomes drop while the cost of living keeps going up etc etc etc. The only way for the birth rate to go up will be for the government to address these issues. People are not going to have children just because the government says they should.

SilverPal SG

These concerns about money doesn't really affect them. I won't be bothered either if I had million dollar salary.