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Singapore TV Show Encourages Baby-Making

Boston.com:

Baby-short Singapore was to get a glimpse of the highs and lows of pregnancy and childbirth Saturday with the premiere of a television series that follows a couple through the entire baby-making process.

The show -- dubbed "Here's Looking at You, Babe!" -- comes as the wealthy Southeast Asian city-state grapples with a precipitous fall in its birth rate, which threatens to shrink its population if it isn't reversed.

"The government wants Singaporeans to have more kids and we are stepping in," father-to-be Allan Li told Channel NewsAsia, the network that will air the series.

Posted by Timothy Fredel at July 8, 2004 07:54 PM | TrackBack
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