1 child Policy - Ya Wen

Reflection(26/1/2015)

Singapore Government is using all ways and means to encourage Singaporeans to give birth to more babies. Many young couples nowadays are not in favour of the idea of giving birth to children with many excuses. For example, some of them would say they want to be successful in their career and having a child would be a stepping stone to fulfilling their dreams. Others plainly just do not want the hassle of raising a child. With this, the birth rate in Singapore greatly decreases. On the other hand, more and more people are aging and dying. This is the main reason for the decrease in population size in Singapore. Having seen that, the government is now encouraging couples to bare a child using methods such as the baby bonus we have now. The one child policy doesn't seem to have any effect in Singapore as many people here are always ready to showcase their talent but with more than 1.3 billion people (1,336,718,015 as of mid-2011), Chinese leader Deng Xiao Ping created this one child policy to temporarily limit communist China's population growth. It is said that this one child policy not only limits the population growth, it also helps to nurture more children to become young talents in China. With only on child in the family, parents would most likely focus solely on this child and provide him with the best education, to best tuition, and the best of everything to him, thus nurturing the child in the best way one can ever recieve. However, I think this isn't a very good strategy as children would be very stress under the full attention of their parents and the chances of them rebelling to stray into the bad path becomes higher. This would also increase competition in the country itself and unhappiness of the citizens would increase. Thus, I do not approve of the one child policy despite its advantages stated.