Singapore Offers Up to $70,000 in Financial Support to Encourage Family Formation

Singapore asks the $70,000 question: who wants to start a family?

Sum of financial support from a baby’s birth until age 17 is the city-state’s offer to address low birthrate and reluctance of couples to have children With leafy cycle paths, rooftop water parks and child-friendly restaurants, Singapore’s east coast is one of the best places in the island city-state to raise a family. Finance worker Lee lives in an apartment here with his wife and two cats, but like an increasing number of Singaporeans they do not intend to have children. They worry about th...

By Natasha May in Bangkok