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The Language of Survival: Singapore's Total Fertility Rate

The Language of Survival: Singapore's Total Fertility Rate

In 1977, a Straits Times news article titled “Why couples in S’pore prefer to be childless” discussed how the trend of small families has “firmly taken root here but a recently “no baby” way of life is proving to be increasingly popular” . This trend could be considered the effects of the highly effective national Five-Year Mass Family Planning Programme (launched in January 1966)

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