Out of the eight people interviewed, four were already married, four were single but intending to get married, and three didn't want to get married. The one who didn't want to get married said that they wants to concentrate on their career and they does not want to be tied down by a family.
Out of the four who want to get married, only four wanted to have or have children. Those who didn't want children said that children were too expensive in Singapore, and he and his wife have agreed that they would rather spend time between themselves. The other 3 mostly wanted 1-3 children. They said that children are fun, interesting and makes a family complete. Some wanted children so that they can take care of them when the parents are old.
Two said didn't want to have more than three children because of the high cost of living in Singapore.Three stated that there is not enough space in the house for more than three children. Two also feel that Singapore life is too stressful and competitive to bring up a child so they decided not to have any children.
Many shared that Singapore is concerned about this issue because Singapore needs people to help the economy grow. They also feel that if Singapore have very low birth rate, there will be lack of manpower in case of defense
Some solutions shared by the 8 people include giving fathers more paternity leave so that fathers can be more involved. They would also want the government to subsidies childcare centre more since it is very expensive.
Out of the eight people we interviewed two of them said that the government should open more child care centre and give more incentives to the parent and if there is no child in singapore there will not be any singaporeans to defend the country and no foreigner would want to help take over and defend for singapore.
Some said that the women in singapore are marrying late and singaporean are too practical and they would earn money and spent it for themselves.One of them said that the government should give paternalty leaves and subsidy for the family and make child care centre cheaper so that parents can afford to pay for the child care centre fee.
Out of the eight we interviewed three of them said that the population would be lower and we need to employ foreign workers to replace the local workers because there will not be enough local workers to work.
