[...] [Rousing music playing] [Singapore Family Planning and Population Board presents] [Happy Families] [Rousing music fades out] [...] [Professional actors were used in the dramatic scenes] [...] [Ambulance sirens] [Soft dramatic music] [Narrator:] Thistragic scene happens all too often in Singapore. A mother, worn out fromhaving too many children tries abortion. But because it is badlydone and she's weak, she's beyond help by thetime she reaches hospital. [Operating room staff] [...] [Young children crying] [Narrator:] Who will care forher nine young children now? What chance do they have ofgrowing up well and happy without a mother's care? [Child crying loudly] [Water splash] [Tense dramatic music] [Sirens] [Ominous music] [...] [Narrator:] Here is another tragedy. When this woman found she was tohave yet another unwanted baby, she committed suicide. [Ominous music] [...] And so her childrenare left motherless. What a waste? Those cases are ratherextreme you think. But in Singapore,there are thousands of lives ruined and homes brokendue to too many pregnancies. Some of them are lessdramatic, but they are tragedies all the same. [Soft music] Take the case of Mrs.Wong, for example. Why does she looksad and lonely? She is hoping her husband willtake her out with him tonight. Will he? No. He is off by himself again,for the fourth time this week. Oh well, she should beused to it by now. [Big Band music] It all started when 20years ago, Mrs. Wong was so busy havingtoo many children and looking after them. She was never free to have anysocial life with her husband. So he grew used tobeing without her. And now that her childrenhave grown up and gone, she has nothingleft but loneliness. [Somber music] [Child banging on a pan] [Child crying] Well, what about this? Here is a mother worn outby having too many children. Now she's desperatebecause she's going to have yet another. How can she look after themproperly, keep them clean, even give them enough to eat. When they are so many, shedoesn't want any more children. What about her husband? What a home to come back to? What has it done to them? [Husband speaks sternly to his family in Malay.] [Speaking Malay] [...] [Speaking Malay] [Wife responds angrily in Malay.] [Husband:] [Speaks Malay] [Wife:] [Speaks Malay] [Husband:] [Speaks Malay] [Wife:] [Speaks Malay] [Crying] [Narrator:] Only six yearsago, they looked like this. It looks desperate but thereis an answer to the problem. [Soft music] Take this family for instance,how different they are. It's not a matter of money. This husband earnsthe same wages as the one we've justmet, but these people planned their family. So they could take careof each child properly. They allowed timebetween pregnancies for the mother toregain her health. [Upbeat music] So did these families. They limited theirchildren to the number they could afford to clothe,feed, and care for properly. Isn't that the dutyof good parents? After all, childrenneed attention and love. Is it so difficult? Let's look at a biggerfamily this time, the state. That may soundodd, but the nation is the sum totalof all its families and it should be thehappiest family of all. We expect the governmentto look after us just like good parents. A few years ago, therewere not enough places in school for all our children. Now every child hasa place in school. Every child is assured ofat least 10 years education. There are 1/2 a millionchildren in our schools. And for the talented ones,places in college and university afterwards. What about jobs? In states likethis one at Zhurong are providingthousands of new jobs every year forSingapore citizens. Already 30 new factories havebegun operations at Zhurong. 17,000 acres has been laid asidefor industrial development. So that eventually, Zhurong willbe a new town in its own right, with its own housing,parks, social amenities, and transport. [Music continues] What about houses? Between 1960 and1965, 51,000 new homes were built at a costof $192 million. By 1970, another 60,000will be complete. That's 12,000 new homes a year. [...] Look at the finenew hospitals. Look at the new roads, the parks,the community centers. 10 years ago, theydidn't exist, now they're going up everywhere. How have they happened?Only because of planning. The governmenthas planned ahead. Planned for newindustries, new houses, new schools, newcommunity centers. Surely, if the government,the biggest family of them all can plan ahead andregulate its growth, so can we in our ownindividual families. The government worksahead but it can only plan for so manynew families a year. It cannot cope with anunchecked population growth. It is up to us to limitpopulation growth to the level which our islandstate can support, and which we cansupport as parents. After all, thegovernment makes it easy for us to plan our families. It has set up maternaland child health clinics all over Singaporeto help us regulate the number of children we have. It's up to us to makeuse of these clinics if we want the bestfor our children. In all the clinics,they are kindly understanding people who canbetween them speak all our four languages. Ready to advise and teachus in planned parenthood. Family planning is quitesimple to understand and easy to practice withthe aid of these teachers. You will find many peopleof all races coming to the clinics forhelp and instruction. If families arelimited to a size that parents can't affordto bring up properly, there will be far lessmisery both among parents and children. Instead, they will be far morehappy families like these. As the state plans forthe future of the nation, we can plan for the futureof our own families. We can enjoy life tothe full if we are not tied down and worried howto feed too many children. We can get about more freelyand enjoy all the pleasures and amenities of our island. Afford a few of the luxuriesthat make all the difference to our lives. [Fanciful music] The state plansits own big family. It works ahead andit doesn't attend more than it knows it can do. That way, there is satisfactionand contentment for us all. That is why it is up toeach and every one of us to use the facilities ofour family planning service. Go to your nearestmaternal and child health clinic in Singapore. Plan for yourhappy family. You will be helping bothyour country and yourselves. [Music] [The End] [Singapore Family Planning and Population Board] [...]