Make babies for Thailand

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FROM KHAOSOD ENGLISH SITE

BANGKOK — Thailand has a baby problem – there just aren’t enough of them.

Amid the wacky campaigns launched in the run-up to Valentine’s Day each year, public health officials this year want to give newlyweds free vitamins and a license to procreate under a program announced Wednesday.

Under the Red-Cheeked Thai Women Bear Children For the Nation with Wonderful Vitamins campaign, officials will give free heart-shaped boxes of iron and folic acid supplements to combat birth defects starting Tuesday, Valentine’s Day.

The hope is to encourage more ready-and-willing women 20 to 34 to have babies due to collapsing birth rates, according to Health Minister Piyasakol Sakolsatyadorn.

“Fewer Thai women are getting married, are marrying later or instead staying single because of higher education,” he said.

The birth rate in 1970 was 2.7, falling to 0.4 in 2015 and projected to reach 0, meaning equilibrium with the death rate, by 2027. Adult women will have to step it up, as the ministry also made its latest seasonal call for a reduction in teen pregnancies.

http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/2017 ... -vitamins/

[Jun]

All they need is a bit of managed immigration.

Laos & Cambodia have high birthrates, similar language & a Buddhist culture, so there is every chance they could integrate quite well.
Therefore avoiding the kind of religious sectarian conflict that often accompanies settlers from some other regions.

[Undaunted]

Laos & Cambodia have high birthrates, similar language & a Buddhist culture, so there is every chance they could integrate quite well.

Interesting, though there is a prejudice among upper class Thais toward Cambodians.