Having children

Its been a long time since I had the time to blog and I was just reading the newspapers and the speech by our great Prime Minister is pretty entertaining.

Why are our birth rates so low??? Are our men having such old fashioned attitudes that we expect our wives to be subservient and give us the full control of a family? Who have you been speaking to man?

The young professionals:
These are the people who are straddled with the most debt. They have to repay their study loans and so on, and draw pretty low salaries. So if they were to get married, they would have to come up with another 100k of savings. The reason??? A HDB flat will cost the couple 20k or so from the get go. Or else they will go into hock again... reno loans blah blah.... Then the car loans too... Wedding??? Another big lump of cash, why not just stay cool, enjoy our freedom and then worry about it later.

The not so educated chinese couple:
Husband holds on to a supervisory job and wife perhaps a factory job. Monthly income.... much left to be desired. So with only 2k coming in a month, how much can they put forth to make more babies? Making babies is not cheap in Sillypore hor.... doctors fee, hospital fee all very expensive leh....

But lets be serious for a moment, it is not that we do not want to have babies, but we are all busy working man.... Family life? What family life... If you have a boss who only has work in his life, you cannot take leave and or MC and or any other time off, and to go home at 7 is already a luxury. Can the gahmen make it compulsory to make family life more important? Nope!! Must serve SME more..... Can staff of executive positions seek reprieve? No!! They are not covered by MOM!!

Our soceity is already screwed up, divorce is high, people having affairs are high, sexual misconduct is high, office sexual harrasement is high!!! What family life is there?

And lets face it ladies and gentlemen, prices are sky high now. Everything in this country is u pay yourself. So food price goes higher, our salaries are not rising. Education goes higher, we have to earn more. Transport fees are higher, we are not even being compensated. The moral or the story, if we want to have what we want, we have to earn it, and if we don have the ability to pay for it, we are screwed. We do not have any safety net and or anything to help us with our payments. Yet we have to pay.... so now the question is... how to afford to bring children into this shitty world?

It is true... how to bring children into this world? Bus transport... 250 and above a month? School fees... 100 plus? Allowance.... 5 bucks per day X 24 days is 120? Total 470 just for one child for school. If wife don work to add to expenditure how? So if dat is the case, how to make other children?

Even IVF... Yea 12-16k per cycle... and how much do we get out of our medisave? 6k for first cycle.... thats only half the cost man!!?? And not confirm first time can successful for. So how?

Are you gonna have children? How can you have children?

Peace man.