Increase in population will have negative effects


THE Terengganu state government’s proposal to help pay the salary of the maids of young parents as part of a package of incentives to get couples to have more babies has been touted as a possible “world’s first”.

Revealing this recently, Terengganu Family Development Foundation director said: “With all this help, couples should not delay their marriage. We want them to have more babies. The state’s fertility rate has been dropping.”

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