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Singapore Again Tries Its Hand at Social Engineering

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Mar 26, 2013
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Not having learned its lessons from the 1960s, Singapore is continuing to practice a form of eugenics, encouraging high-income parents to have more children while discouraging low-income parents from doing so despite the fact that native-born Singaporeans have one of the lowest total fertility rates in the world.

A Singapore physician, John Hui Keem Peng…

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