SINGAPORE is offering to pay parents a whopping £40,000 per child in a desperate bid to boost the country’s plummeting birth rates. The major measure has been a... #news, #worldnews, #singapore, #childrenparentingandfamilylife, #flyingeze
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Singapore is significantly expanding assistance to families in an attempt to cope with the sharp decline in the birth rate, and will provide a government support package worth a total of about 70,000 Singapore dollars – about 180,000 shekels – for every citizen child from birth to age 17.
The program comes after the country’s birth rate has fallen to a low of about 0.87 children per woman.
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