AWARE welcomes the recent announcement by the Minister for Social and Family Development (MSF) Masagos Zulkifli, regarding improvements in accessibility for lower-income families seeking childcare subsidies.
Starting 9 Dec 2024, all lower-income families with a gross monthly household income of S...
This op-ed was originally published in The Straits Times on 23 August 2024.
Prime Minister Lawrence Wong’s first National Day Rally, where he mandated four weeks of paternity leave and introduced 10 weeks of shared parental leave, among other measures to ease the pressures of caregiving, w...
Written by Victoria Jagger, AWARE intern
Following Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong’s Budget speech on 14 February 2023, Parliament conducted the Committee of Supply (COS) debates. COS debates are an opportunity for Members of Parliament (MPs) to discuss and question each Ministry’s ag...
This op-ed was originally published in The Straits Times on 15 February 2023.
I cheered – alongside, I imagine, parents across Singapore – when Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Lawrence Wong announced that government-paid paternity leave would be doubled from the current two w...
This post was originally published as a press release on 15 February 2023.
Amid a suite of announcements in the 2023 National Budget aimed at boosting support for families and working parents, gender-equality organisation AWARE found cause for optimism. Yet the group also identified places wh...
“I would highly recommend this excellent programme to all parents. It helps equip parents with valuable information and skill sets that lead to far-reaching benefits in our youths.”
-- Dr Tan E-Ching, medical director of Hallmark Health
“I had not thought about the nuances of consent...
AWARE has run Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) programmes for students in international schools since 2009. We added the Birds & Bees workshop for parents in 2018, after receiving feedback that teens were not the only ones in need of sexuality education—parents felt unprepared to ha...
This letter was originally published in The Straits Times on 29 July 2022.
We agree with Ms Lam Yin Yin that pre-school should be made mandatory and provided free for those who are unable to afford it (Consider mandatory pre-school, and make it free for vulnerable children, July 25).
The Ass...
This letter was originally published in The Straits Times on 28 July 2022.
Under the Adoption of Children Act 2022, which was passed in Parliament on May 9, couples seeking to adopt must be married under laws recognised by Singapore.
Later, the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF)...
