Tuesday, 24 May 2011

Singapore Government Launches Twinning, Of Course, Dating

Singapore has a problem. Its citizens are waiting too long to marry, if they ever get married, which means that fewer people have children, and the economy could soon suffer.

But we know, the government of the island state has a philosophy of non-interference, is not it?

In this case, the central government of intensifying the spread of the formation of small dust officially sanctioned love. In July, officials from Singapore will start a class of six months on the twinning support network of social development, sub-agency of the Department of Community Development, Youth and Sports. The stated aim is to tap into an informal network of people interested in a culture of pro-marriage and the promotion of products, as well as singles.

Is not it romantic?

This movement has been more than a hunch, based course. 2010 Adult Survey of Singapore showed that half of respondents in the best way to find a partner can be felt by friends. Another 10% of respondents said they rely on "informal introduction" by family members.

"Anecdotal," say the authors of the agent "Real Love Works, 2011" report: "We are also people who have a passion to support their friends who are single, but they do not know how to come on stock basis. "

And if the official Yenta 101 course was born.

Each workshop is a certified family counselor or social worker to discuss realize "the principles of confidentiality and secrecy, addiction and even help organize activities."

But to get the case re-trained matchmakers do not work fast enough, the head of government simpler tools parasites chapter Orwell "Before the plant." SDN has also created a dating site, for example. This is called Lovebyte.


It may seem like Match.com or OK Cupid, but it's not commercial. This is your local office and taxpayer dollars at work.

After Lovebyte "About Us" page, the page is designed to work with the private sector dating sites.

Does that work on the public-private model for improvement and "educate" Romance, a new attitude among young people off? Then the government to "strategic direction" is more than just a pun right? Adshade marina, a professor of economics at Halifax, Canada, is not optimistic.

Adshade who teaches the course "Economics of Sex and Love" at Dalhousie University, said that the plan of Singapore. "It must be nice to know that the government cares about him that you are alone, the problem is that these programs Working for the benefit of the people themselves to ensure they were alone, the state has invested millions in the program in order to coordinate an issue that is not very likely to be resolved;. false premises is found that if people could find each other they are married and the family. "

Singapore conscious singles career can not believe that it is better that he never loved and lost valuable time to search.