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==="You need a very small space to have sex" comment=== | ==="You need a very small space to have sex" comment=== | ||
* oversees the National Population and Talent Division | * Josephine Teo oversees the National Population and Talent Division | ||
* question was posed on whether young people are not getting their flats early enough to have children | * Oct 2016 - question was posed on whether young people are not getting their flats early enough to have children | ||
** potential chicken-and-egg problem: to qualify for the Parenthood Priority Scheme, which gives first-time married couples priority for flat application, they must be expecting or have a citizen child below 16 | ** potential chicken-and-egg problem: to qualify for the Parenthood Priority Scheme, which gives first-time married couples priority for flat application, they must be expecting or have a citizen child below 16 | ||
** But to have a child, some say they need to have a flat first | ** But to have a child, some say they need to have a flat first | ||
* to which Josephine Teo replied, "You need a very small space to have sex."<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20250319111808/https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/ministers-rejoinder-to-no-flat-no-child-belief</ref> | * to which Josephine Teo replied, "You need a very small space to have sex."<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20250319111808/https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/ministers-rejoinder-to-no-flat-no-child-belief</ref> | ||
* She was widely criticized as being childish, insensitive, and unrealistic<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20250319114553/https://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2016/10/14/citizens-voice-their-disagreement-with-josephine-teos-views-on-flat-ownership-and-parenthood/</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20250319114834/https://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2016/10/12/couples-need-a-flat-before-they-can-have-kids-no-you-need-a-very-small-space-to-have-sex/</ref> | * She was widely criticized as being childish, insensitive, and unrealistic<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20250319114553/https://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2016/10/14/citizens-voice-their-disagreement-with-josephine-teos-views-on-flat-ownership-and-parenthood/</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20250319114834/https://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2016/10/12/couples-need-a-flat-before-they-can-have-kids-no-you-need-a-very-small-space-to-have-sex/</ref> | ||
==="Milk is milk" comment=== | |||
* in the wake of high cost of milk powder, she declared in a Facebook post, "Milk is milk, however fancy the marketing" | |||
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===Comment that no migrant worker demanded apology=== | ===Comment that no migrant worker demanded apology=== | ||