Where is the stork? Sociological insights into barriers to fertility in Singapore1

• Main Authors: STRAUGHAN, Paulin Tay, CHAN, Angelique, JONES, Gavin W.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2006
• Subjects: focus groups interviews; marriage rates; parenthood; Singapore; total fertility rate (TFR); Asian Studies; Family, Life Course, and Society
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2198
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Low fertility has become a global phenomenon in developed economies, with low birth rates and shrinking populations threatening the projected labour supply of the future. The next generation of parents-to-be grew up in conditions that were governed by change in the ideologies of family, parenthood,...