In the 1970s Singapore tried to discourage couples from having children. if they had a 4th child, the child would be discriminated against in school admissions policy.
In Singapore, population planning is divided into two phases: the first aims to limit and reverse the post-World War II birth boom; the second, beginning in the 1980s, encourages parents to have more children because the birth rate had fallen below the level needed to replace lost population.
The Singaporean government implemented the two-child policy in the 1970s as a population control tool to encourage couples to have no more than two children. It was introduced at the beginning of the 1972 National Family Planning Campaign as a part of the second five-year national family planning program (1972–1975). To conclude the 4th child would be discriminated against in school admissions policy.
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