"This book depicts the evolution of Singapore's family and population landscape in the last half a century, the related public policies, and future challenges. Since the country's independence in 1965, family and population policies have been an integral part of its national building...

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New Title:	Container of (work)
Other Authors:	Yeung, Wei-jun Jean 1958- (Editor), Hu, Shu (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York Routledge 2020
Series:	Routledge contemporary Southeast Asia series
Subjects:	Families > Singapore Bevölkerungsentwicklung Familie Singapore > Population Singapur
Summary:	"This book depicts the evolution of Singapore's family and population landscape in the last half a century, the related public policies, and future challenges. Since the country's independence in 1965, family and population policies have been an integral part of its national building developmental strategies. The chapters discuss the changes in population compositions, family structures, relations, values among major ethnic groups. They also discuss policies for vulnerable populations such as female-headed households, cross-cultural families, same-sex partnering, the elderly, and low-income families. In the context of global family changes, Singapore's experience is by no means a linear extrapolation of those in the western industrialized countries, but unique case in the global family change"...
Item Description:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:	viii, 208 Seiten Diagramme 25 cm
ISBN:	9780367484194 9780815363323