What I found in the news
According to the BBC News article "What should come first, a baby or a flat?
", Nowadays Singapore is facing a problem of an ageing population because of lowing birth rates so their government try to solve the problem by encourage citizens to have their children. One of politician, Ms. Josephine Teo, candidate was asked that if some reasons of not having children especially young Singaporeans was because they had to wait too long to have their own houses and It’s hard to have babies if they still live with their parents. Ms. Teo gave her viewpoint that Accommodation shouldn't be a priority and she also gave some examples of being family and have children process from other countries in otherwise in the formation tell about the price of accommodation in Singapore is very expensive and likely difficult to get their own. After that her suggestions instigated ferocious discuss in online society.
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My response
I think this problem is happening in many countries and it will effects to economics but when i was reading this article I thought about one point that she may forgot to think about quality of childern because sometimes accommodation can show that they are affordable.for Thailand I think we are facing with this problem too but in specific class of people , most graduated people have less children because they plan a lot of things and moreover people who have more children likely have lower income and don't plan to have them and we can see it in the NEWS sometimes.
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ReplyDeleteThis problem is one of the most complicate issues and I am quite sure that there are many people trying to come up with a solution. I mean think about it: Less educated youth have tendency to become pregnant in their early life have a family and many kids they don't think much about their conditions. Well they might be better off when their kids grown up any way; in the meantime, more educated students youth prone to feel uncertain to their life and think that they need more before they settle. Such things as cars, house endowment, higher education and so forth seem to be necessary for them. Thus, they typically get married in their 30s. Nonetheless, they just think that it is not "right" to get a soul mate in their high-school or to get married with someone with "not good enough" condition.
ReplyDeleteWhat is a consequence of this scenario? scarcity of the educated. A friend of mine said Thailand average intellect will be decreasing with this trend. Well maybe we do not have to worry about decreasing in population in Thailand because it will definitely increase. What we have to think it not how to increase population but how to increase residents' quality.