Hi.. we are from Peicai Secondary School. we are doing a reaserch about Singapore Low Brth's Rate. Staaay aheaddd XD

Introduction
Hello guys ... !!! As way of introduction.We are Maggie,Fichela and Niko and we are from PeiCai Secondary Schoo Class 2E...We are going to tell you about what people think about the low birth in Singapore...
we have interviewed 10 people - 5 Married and 5 Singles..
They gave us a lots of reasons that made us knowing more about it ...
You can find it more here... ! just look forwardss ... :D




Background Information
Here are some reasons why Singapore has Low Birth Rate :
1. High cost of living in Singapore and thus high costs in bringing up children-both of the husband and wife have to work to support the family.
2.Lifestyle preference-being educated, they are economically independent. The number of singels between 35 to 44 who prefer to stay unmarried has increased.
3.Preferance for small family-due to the high standards of hygience and good medical care, every child has a better chance of growing and reaching maturity, thus parents prefer to keep their families small.
4.With education , more woman aspire for a career outside the home and delay having children.
5."A lot of family planning decision is being made based on the economy, like whether a person can keep their job, maintain their job. Their salary over the couple of years would be a main determinant,"

As can be seen from these two articles, some reasons were shown such as rising infertility rate, liberal view towards marriage commitment, child-bearing, pragmatic government etc


sources :www.pearsonlongman.com.sg
                www.google.com
                http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-12/25/content_12704875.htm


Methodology

• To investigate those people who have children
• How many children do you have?
• Do you want to have more children? Why?
• Do you think Singapore's Government will encourage you to have more children?
• What other reasons do you think why Singaporeans don't want to have children?
• Why do you think the government is concerned about the low birthrate?

• To investigate those people who don't want to married or don't want to have any children
• Why don't you want to have children?
• Do you think Singapore's Government will encourage those people who don't have any children?
• What do you think can happend if Singapore continues to have a low birth rate?
• What other reasons do you think why Singaporeans don't want to have children?
• Why do you think the government is concerned about the low birthrate?
• Why don't you want to have more children?

Result and Analysis

Result :

~Lily  : Mrs.Lily is a 26 years old teacher whose currently engaged whose intending to get married in a years time as she would like to have two childrens in the future. She thinks that having more children is getting more troublesome. She think that children these days are harder to control.

~ Jiafan :  Ms.JiaFan is a 30 years old who married for four years and counting on. She has two childrens and both of them are girls. She would not like to have more childrens in the future as she wants to focus on her career. She thinks that raising a children need at least few thousands and she is under financial problems.

~Malisa : Mrs.Malisa is a 29 years old secretary who have just married for 3 years . She has only one children and she intented to have many children in the future. After looking through her jobs and the high living costs. she changed her mind to have only one children.

~Nattanan: Mrs. nattanan a 42 years old worker who have 3 Children instead. She was encouraged by the government to have more children to give her more bonuses. so that's happened because there's no other choises. "

~JIweon : Ms.Jiweon is a 26 years old.S he said that having children is actually not easy at all for her. It requires a lot of commitment and sacrifices. they must find the time to spend with them despite having a busy and tiring day at work. And you also have to work very hard to support them. SHe think these are the reasons why most people do not want to have children 
now.

~Wang Cheng : Ms. WanCheng is a 26 years old teacher . she is a single and She don't want to get married and  have any children because she is still econimically independent .The goverment tried to encourage her to get married and have children . However ,she was encouraged by the incentives that the government will provides.She will take a time to think the positive and negative effect to her life. 


Analysis
Out of the 6 people I interviewed, 5 were married, and only 1 were single.
The one that is single, is engaged, and getting married soon.
She did not want to have children as she thinks that she is still young, and hence, she do no want to Give birth, she want to enjoy her times with her husband.