Fertility and the state : the importance of population policies versus family and changing attitudes.

• Main Author: Ong, Joyce Jia Yi.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/51691
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this paper, I explore the influence of state policies on individual reproductive decisions in Singapore, a state that has yet to be successful in achieving their desired fertility rate since it embarked on the use of this type of policies since the 1980s (Sun 2009). I investigate this...