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http://dx.doi.org/10.15207/JKCS.2018.9.1.143

The Marriage Stewardship and the Role and Status of Social Development Network in Singapore  

Kim, Myung-Hee (Smith College of Liberal Arts, Sahmyook University)
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Journal of the Korea Convergence Society / v.9, no.1, 2018 , pp. 143-149 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper focuses on how Singapore has adopted the 'Marriage Promotion Policy' for resolving the low birthrate and how it has been using the Social Development Network (SDN) to cope with the problem of low fertility. Social Development Network is an organization that shows Singapore's national stewardship to marriage, and has developed from the beginning to the social phenomenon of increasing number of highly educated women and decreasing fertility. The predecessor of Social Development Network is 'Social Development Unit' (SDU), absorbed the 'Social Development Service' (SDS) that was launched later, and reborn as Social Development Network in 2009. At its inception, Social Development Network has been recruiting and organizing its own memberships without the help of commercial marriage agencies, and since 2006 has been dedicated to delegating dating and matchmaking services to private companies and supporting projects. The purpose of this paper using literature analysis is to analyze the status and role of Social Development Network from the theoretical point of view of marital stewardship to the present, and to suggest meaningful implications for Korea which has the same social experience.
Keywords
birth promotion; Social Development Network; stewardship; marriage matchmaking agency; low birth rate;
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