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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR>Pressure to 'space out births'
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->The nurses dropped by just 30 days after she had given birth to her first child - to get her to go on the Pill.
It was 1972 and the two-child policy was in full swing.
There were various Stop At Two posters everywhere, recalled Madam Lelavathi Annamalai (right, with husband Rathakrishnan Singaran, 62).
'We were pressured (forced?) to space out the births,' said Madam Annamalai, now 60. 'People felt guilty when they had a kid.'
=> The power of the 154th and the naviety of Sporns is certainly amazing! Dun be surprised that 66% Sporns would feel guilty voting for the Oppos and feel proud being screwed by the Familee!
The then-corporate support staff member at the Singapore Armed Forces took birth control pills for three years. She felt that her work environment did not encourage child-bearing.
'We didn't dare take medical leave for maternity check-ups before delivery because we felt guilty,' she said. 'People in the office would talk when colleagues got pregnant.'
=> Just like civil servants dun dare to vote for the Oppos?
When her son was growing up, it was her parents and in-laws who took care of him.
'It was hard for us to take him for vaccinations or take time off when he was sick,' said Madam Annamalai, whose husband was then a policeman.
Three years later, the couple wanted a second child but could not conceive.
'It was too late. I should have had one more child before going on the Pill,' she said ruefully.
In 1987, she consulted fertility doctors and tried in-vitro fertilisation, but still could not conceive.
Her son, a 36-year-old teacher, now lives in Australia.
=> Among the thouisands who emigrate from this Land of Hopelessnes? Well done, Old Fart!
He is married with no children. As the only son, the pressure was on him to excel in school and at work. He is expected to care for his parents. 'I wish I'd more children. The home would have been livelier and the burden wouldn't be on this one poor boy,' Madam Annamalai said.
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->The nurses dropped by just 30 days after she had given birth to her first child - to get her to go on the Pill.
It was 1972 and the two-child policy was in full swing.
There were various Stop At Two posters everywhere, recalled Madam Lelavathi Annamalai (right, with husband Rathakrishnan Singaran, 62).
'We were pressured (forced?) to space out the births,' said Madam Annamalai, now 60. 'People felt guilty when they had a kid.'
=> The power of the 154th and the naviety of Sporns is certainly amazing! Dun be surprised that 66% Sporns would feel guilty voting for the Oppos and feel proud being screwed by the Familee!
The then-corporate support staff member at the Singapore Armed Forces took birth control pills for three years. She felt that her work environment did not encourage child-bearing.
'We didn't dare take medical leave for maternity check-ups before delivery because we felt guilty,' she said. 'People in the office would talk when colleagues got pregnant.'
=> Just like civil servants dun dare to vote for the Oppos?
When her son was growing up, it was her parents and in-laws who took care of him.
'It was hard for us to take him for vaccinations or take time off when he was sick,' said Madam Annamalai, whose husband was then a policeman.
Three years later, the couple wanted a second child but could not conceive.
'It was too late. I should have had one more child before going on the Pill,' she said ruefully.
In 1987, she consulted fertility doctors and tried in-vitro fertilisation, but still could not conceive.
Her son, a 36-year-old teacher, now lives in Australia.
=> Among the thouisands who emigrate from this Land of Hopelessnes? Well done, Old Fart!
He is married with no children. As the only son, the pressure was on him to excel in school and at work. He is expected to care for his parents. 'I wish I'd more children. The home would have been livelier and the burden wouldn't be on this one poor boy,' Madam Annamalai said.
