by Simon Lim
My children are grown-up already but still as a citizen, I am heartened to read in the Straits Times that the People’s Action Party (PAP)’s government is moving and putting in more efforts to address our long-neglected total fertility problems.
Let me explain.
Our total fertility rates now stand at 1.14 per childbearing woman, a world record low. If nothing is resolutely done to tackle its persistent decline, it is totally possible that in our children’s lifetime, native Singaporeans will become a clear minority in their own country, Singapore. Projecting even further into the future, it is completely possible that native Singaporeans may one day become extinct and all thanks to the hopeless, greedy and overpaid PAP government’s neglect and indifference attitude.