Zuraida Kamaruddin |
SHAH ALAM - Minister of Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Rohani Abdul Karim challenged to live a normal life with a minimum wage of RM900 for a period of 30 days.
Wanita PKR, Zuraida Kamaruddin said it to experience the pain of load and stress to be borne by the working women who earn minimum at the same time incurring expenses and daily necessities kitchen.
"He has (spiritual) must never have trouble with salaried workers. We want to challenge him to live 30 days as a woman who earned the minimum wage to RM900 with his family.
"Then after the 30-day period, we want him to make a decision whether relevant are to have more children when the cost of living is increasing," he said in a statement today.
According to Zuraida, every family needs to have a financially stable before are willing to accept additional responsibilities.
He added that it is also in order to avoid unwanted problems in the long run.
"It is a fact that the birth rate is decreasing. But at the same time, the quality of life should also be enhanced.
"... Instead of giving advice" should not be too concentrated on the quality of life ", the government should take responsibility for ensuring the quality of life in Malaysia to be better," he said.
Rohani said in reply to oral questions at the hearing of the House of Commons in Parliament earlier this week stated that the government encourages married couples in this country increased the number of children to support the improvement of the country's population.
According to him, most families have two children and found the matter affected by many factors including the problem of late marriage and fertility.
She said again, an ideal family is projected to have between three to four children, in this context, various efforts and encouragement by the government to encourage married couples to have more children.