Category: Family and Divorce

2016: A Year In Review

What a rewarding year 2016 has been! Keeping up the momentum from last year, AWARE has made leaps an...

International Migrants Day: AWARE urges equality and inclusion for foreign wives

This post was originally published as a press release on 14 December 2016. In view of Internation...

Joseph Schooling and other prominent male leaders pin on white ribbons to show commitment to end violence against women

This post was originally published as a press release on 25 November 2016. Prominent male leaders...

How Good Dads Can Change the World [Break the Silence | Against Family Violence]

Caregiving transforms men in innumerable positive ways. As men do more of the caregiving, violence a...

Parliament questions on foreign spouses policies

There have been many questions of concern raised in parliament about the denial of PR status for non...

Parliament questions on policies that affect unwed mothers and their children

Recently, there have been some questions raised in Parliament on the rationale behind the policy o...

There is nothing wrong with single parent families.

This post was originally published as a press release on 27 August 2016.  There is nothing wrong...

Over 10,000 children born to single parents

Thanks to a question in parliament, clear information on the number of children born to unmarried mo...

Grant more rights to foreign wives

This letter was first published on The Straits Times, 18 August 2016.  The stigma around ‘mail...