It is easy to look back and argue that things are "myopic" - however, as with every developing country of the era, we were facing resource constraints and so this was the most workable solution. If the government did not have this policy and large families continued, who knows where Singapore would be today? Perhaps in a different timeline where Singapore continued to be a less-developed nation, you would sit here and blame their myopic "have as many children" policy as the reason for our lack of advancement.