Stateless children join their Thai classmates at a school in Samut Sakhon. A tax policy to encourage more births is necessary, so the argument goes. Of course we should have policies to cope with an ageing society but I doubt this tax break policy will work. Lacking life and job security, stateless people mostly end up being exploited by employers, extorted by corrupt police, or pushed into the underground economy run by mafia. Adoption is only possible if those stateless children are already in orphanages.

Source: Bangkok Post February 14, 2018 21:45 UTC