🇸🇬 Singapore 2d ago · Khai Asyraf

If We Made It Free to Have Children, Would Singaporeans Have More?

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If We Made It Free to Have Children, Would Singaporeans Have More?
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Someone posed this question mid-session, almost casually: if the cost of raising children was no longer a factor, removed entirely from the equation, would Singapore’s chronically low birth rate reverse itself?



The room went quiet for a beat. Then the answers came.



“No.” 



“Nah.” 



“Probably not.”



The sentiments were clear, yet these weren’t the answers anyone expected. Not from a group of parents who had just spent the better part

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