The Singapore Government has repeatedly encouraged parents to give birth to more children over the last few years. Why is this so? The reason is that Singapore's population growth is dwindling and we need more people to contribute to the society. However in China, the government is enforcing a one child policy on all residents and people caught having more than one child will be punished accordingly. The positive impacts on this enforcement is that there will be a decrease in population growth and lesser people would have to fight for jobs and admissions in schools. Decrease in population growth will also cause lesser families to be in poverty as parents would not have as huge of a burden to raise their one and only child. They will be able to devote all their attention and give the best to their child. However, it would not the same case when parents have many children as parents might not have enough money and resources to provide the best for their children. However, enforcing the one child policy might also result in more children and babies being abandoned. Parents who have more than one child and do not want to be dealt with the law will abandon their children.
In Singapore, parents are giving birth to lesser number of children as they fear not having enough money to provide for their children. If this continues and Singapore's population decreases, there will be lesser people working and we might have shortage of workers in Singapore. There will also be lesser people going into the military force and helping to protect Singapore. There will also be a decrease in the working population and there will be more old dependents depending on the working population. The dependency ratio will be higher and will add more stress to the working population as they will have to work harder in order to earn more money to support the old dependents. Singapore will also face an aging population which means that there will be more elderly workers in the workforce than young adults since there is lower birth rate. This would cause the elderly to tire themselves out by working. The defense force of Singapore might become weaker and there will also be a weaker workforce in Singapore when there is lesser birth rate and thus lesser young adults who will enter the army. To prevent the decrease in population, the government has provided baby bonus for every child that is born so that parents can use the baby bonus to help provide for their children.
This would happen to Singapore's population if the number of birth rates continues to decline. There will be an aging population and the dependency ratio will be higher.
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