Editing Eugenics (section)

=== In Singapore ===
{{Main|Population control in Singapore#Demographic transition and the Graduate Mothers Scheme}}
[[Lee Kuan Yew]], the [[Founding Father|founding father]] of [[Singapore]], actively promoted eugenics as late as 1983.<ref>{{cite web |last=Chan |first=Ying-kit |date=4 October 2016 |title=Eugenics in Postcolonial Singapore |url=http://www.blynkt.com/issue-1/eugenics-in-postcolonial-singapore |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171008232753/http://www.blynkt.com/issue-1/eugenics-in-postcolonial-singapore |archive-date=8 October 2017 |access-date=19 October 2017 |website=Blynkt.com |location=Berlin}}</ref> In 1984, Singapore began providing financial incentives to highly educated women to encourage them to have more children. For this purpose was introduced the "Graduate Mother Scheme" that incentivized graduate women to get married as much as the rest of their populace.<ref>See Diane K. Mauzy; Robert Stephen Milne, ''Singapore politics under the People's Action Party'' (Routledge, 2002).</ref> The incentives were extremely unpopular and regarded as eugenic, and were seen as discriminatory towards Singapore's non-Chinese ethnic population. In 1985, the incentives were partly abandoned as ineffective, while the government matchmaking agency, the [[Social Development Network]], remains active.<ref name="LOC1989">{{cite web |title=Singapore: Population Control Policies |url=http://www.photius.com/countries/singapore/society/singapore_society_population_control_p~11008.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110411115633/http://www.photius.com/countries/singapore/society/singapore_society_population_control_p~11008.html |archive-date=11 April 2011 |access-date=11 August 2011 |work=Library of Congress Country Studies (1989) |publisher=[[Library of Congress]]}}</ref><ref name="natgeo">{{Cite magazine |last=Jacobson |first=Mark |date=January 2010 |title=The Singapore Solution |url=http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/01/singapore/jacobson-text |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091220125820/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/01/singapore/jacobson-text/5 |archive-date=20 December 2009 |access-date=26 December 2009 |magazine=[[National Geographic Magazine]]}}</ref><ref name="pushingforbabies">{{cite news |last=Webb |first=Sara |date=26 April 2006 |title=Pushing for babies: S'pore fights fertility decline |url=http://www.singapore-window.org/sw06/060426re.htm |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716052445/http://www.singapore-window.org/sw06/060426re.htm |archivedate=16 July 2011 |access-date=15 July 2024 |work=Singapore Window |agency=Reuters}}</ref>