tell the g'armen to fark spider lah...
chinese, malay, indian or eurasian, as long as a couple is educated
and understands that they would like their child to have a
reasonable level of material comfort and maximum opportunities in
education, they're not gonna have more kids than they can
afford!
there is a direct link between how many kids pple choose to have,
and their level of education. its not a vanity thing, or a selfish
thing... educated pple understand how difficult it is to raise a
family.
the dude who mentioned that our great-grandparents probably had 20
children and they all turned out fine is just missing the point. if
u have even half that, 10 kids now, u're not gonna even gonna reach
subsistence level.
cost of living is way higher, basic needs have broadened and if u
have ten kids whom u can't afford to send to school, u're basically
breeding an economic underclass who has no access to education and
higher opportunities, and has no ablity to send their descendants
to school... the poverty trap.
it is outrageous that we should be thus forced to have children
when it is understood that the economy is not in the pink, and the
gov't is just talking its head off instead of opening its
wallet.
the subsidies will NEVER justify the costs of having more kids than
u can afford...
they will NEVER have enough babies... they can import all the
chinks from china and all the thambis from india for all i
care...
many pple are simply not gonna have another one in this uncertain
climate... no money to buy susu how? government pay ah?
