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Monday, 13 August 2012 13:31

Want more babies? Change mindset towards less educated

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Want more babies? Change mindset towards less educated

Still, the birth rate refuses to budge. It is a hard nut to crack. The stork refuses to make a return flight — perhaps until fundamental mindsets within the government changes.

An example of an archaic way of thinking which is quite discriminatory as well is the rationale behind the Home Ownership Plus Education Scheme (HOPE) administered by the Ministry for Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS).

On the MCYS website, the scheme is described as one which "provides comprehensive benefits to young, low-income families who choose to keep their family small. Families receiving assistance under the scheme are committed to keeping their families small and investing their limited resources in education and skills upgrading to achieve self-reliance."

In other words, the low-income should not be having too many children.

Such thinking harks back to the stop-at-two policy in the 1970s.

Read the full article by Andrew Loh on Yahoo Singapore here: Want more babies? Change mindset towards less educated.

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Andrew Loh

Andrew Loh

Andrew's passion are social and political issues. His writings have been reproduced in other publications, including the Australian Housing Journal in 2010. Andrew also writes weekly for Yahoo Singapore which nominated him as one of Singapore's most influential media persons in 2011 and cited him for having "pioneered a new form of journalism in Singapore - the kind that dared to speak truth to power."

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  • Comment Link Mel Tuesday, 14 August 2012 09:18 posted by Mel

    I'm not sure if he has changed now but back then LKY is a firm believer in Eugenics... How in the world he would now employ policies that encourage the less educated to procreate more is beyond me.

    Let's not forget and kid ourselves abt who actually "owns" Singapore...

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