Category: Family and Divorce

MSF announces more infant and childcare places from 2025 and a new process for applying for childcare subsidies from 9 Dec 2024

AWARE welcomes the recent announcement by the Minister for Social and Family Development (MSF) Masag...

NDR 2024: Bold steps for families, but let’s not stop there

This op-ed was originally published in The Straits Times on 23 August 2024. Prime Minister L...

Forum letter: Address the discrimination against single unwed mums first

I was frustrated to see single women being singled out as one major cause of Singapore’s fal...

CEDAW pushes Singapore on Intersectional Equality

UN review shines spotlight on Muslim women’s rights, Migrant Workers’ rights, and LGBTQI in Si...

Response: Change to the Women’s Charter allowing couples to cite mutual agreement as a reason for divorce

We are pleased to learn that married couples will be able to divorce on the basis of mutual ag...

(25th Nov 2023) Rise up against domestic violence with AWARE

To commemorate the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and Girls a...

Dads are equal parents, not assistants to mums

This op-ed, penned by AWARE Executive Director Corinna Lim, was originally published in ...

On the expanded definitions of family violence and other changes to the Women’s Charter Bill

AWARE celebrates the passing of the Women’s Charter (Family Violence and Other Matters) (Amend...

Research respondents needed: Survivors of coercive control in Singapore

AWARE's Advocacy and Research department is currently looking for research respondents for a new...