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Singapore Reports Success In Controlling Population Growth With Tiredness And Rampant Social Ladder Climbing

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Landlocked Country Uses Fatigue As Weapon Against Population Growth

Retailers Pleased That Emphasis On Consumerism And Careers Results In Less Time Off For Pregnancies And More Money Spent On Their Products

Woes of diaper and children's clothing manufacturers considering an acceptable casualty in the war on population growth, say international environmentalists who don't have to live in the Singapore

December 6, 2004 by [Garnet R. Chaney]

This week the Sunday Times surveyed 200 married couples to discover that three in five have sex once or less per week. 75% claimed tiredness and fatigue.

Chan Pui Yin, an exhausted film producer who married a fatigued businessman, said "I have no time for sex, let alone the commitment to bring up a child."

Sociologist and marriage psychologist Dr. Frederick Toke said "The definition of success has changed. It's measured not by your family, but by your career and good social status."

Tan Thuan Seng, president of Focus On The Family Singapore, a fringe Christian group promoting traditional ideals like families that produce children, decried the focus on selfishness, saying "People are more selfish now, because of the focus on individual freedom and pleasure."

Christian Goh typified the new attitude in the country, saying "I don't want kids. To me, they're parasites. They're like mushrooms growing on trees, feeding on the host," she said.

Fertility rate in 2003 has hit an all time low of 1.25 children per woman. Only 35,000 babies were born in 2003 in Singapore. Environmentalists were pleased at a birth rate well below the rate of 1.8 needed to maintain the current overcrowding of a population of 3.4 million.

The government also may implement HIV testing before marriage, to help prevent HIV infected people from reproducing within marriage. Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan admitted to having no idea who his girls hang out with, saying "Should we do it? I don't know. But if you ask me as a parent, I think there is no harm. I have three girls and you do not know what their boyfriends will be like."

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