SINGAPORE: Animal welfare group - ACRES - said plans are underway for a national adoption centre in Singapore that will shelter and re-home stray cats and dogs.
Making the announcement at an animal welfare forum, ACRES Executive Director Louis Ng said details of the plan are currently being reviewed by the National Development Ministry.
Channel NewsAsia understands the centre will be run by Action for Singapore Dogs and the Animal Lovers League.
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national adoption centre is expected to relieve the space crunch that
animal rescue and welfare groups are facing, and push adoption rates up.
Mr Ng said all animal shelters in Singapore are currently full.
- CNA/ck
How come the government stopped the sterilization of strays programme?
Didn't they know that their "Stop at Two" campaign for human was very successful in reducing the population of Singapore.
There are local born animals and there are strays. The local animals can be controlled by sterilization. And strays can be controlled by responsible pet ownership.
Birth rates fell from 1957 to 1970, but then began to rise as women of the postwar baby boom reached child-bearing years.
The government responded with policies intended to further reduce the birth rate. Abortion and voluntary sterilization were legalized in 1970.
Between 1969 and 1972, a set of policies known as "population disincentives" were instituted to raise the costs of bearing third, fourth, and subsequent children.
Civil servants received no paid maternity leave for third and subsequent children; maternity hospitals charged progressively higher fees for each additional birth; and income tax deductions for all but the first two children were eliminated.
Large families received no extra consideration in public housing assignments, and top priority in the competition for enrollment in the most desirable primary schools was given to only children and to children whose parents had been sterilized before the age of forty.
Voluntary sterilization was rewarded by seven days of paid sick leave and by priority in the allocation of such public goods as housing and education.
The policies were accompanied by publicity campaigns urging parents to "Stop at Two" and arguing that large families threatened parents' present livelihood and future security.
The penalties weighed more heavily on the poor, and were justified by the authorities as a means of encouraging the poor to concentrate their limited resources on adequately nurturing a few children who would be equipped to rise from poverty and become productive citizens.
Fertility declined throughout the 1970s, reaching the replacement level of 1.006 in 1975, and thereafter declining below that level.
With fertility below the replacement level, the population would after some fifty years begin to decline unless supplemented by immigration.
http://countrystudies.us/singapore/14.htm
Eugenics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics#Singapore
A study on the racist and eugenicist views of the peranakan leader of Singapore, Harry Lee Kuan Yew:
Harry Lee Kuan Yew: Race, Culture and Genes
http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/APCITY/UNPAN004070.pdf
Harry Lee Kuan Yew: Race Realist of Singapore
http://www.thegreenarrow.co.uk/writers/others/2092-lee-kuan-yew-race-realist-of-singapore