By Goh Li Sian, Research and Advocacy Coordinator, AWARE
We were not surprised to learn that measures such as the Baby Bonus have been found to be ineffective "incentives" for childbirth and parenthood ("Fewer sold on incentives to start a family: Survey"; last Tuesday).
Whether to have childr...
By Sumedha Jalote, Communications Executive, AWARE
The Social and Family Development Ministry stated recently that the Government provides support and benefits for the care and development of all Singaporean children, regardless of their mother’s marital status.
This is despite the disparity in ...
By Leow Hui Min
In 2009, former law dean Thio Su-Mien proclaimed herself a “feminist mentor” and led a group from the Anglican Church of Our Saviour in taking over AWARE. She did so on the pretext of putting an end to an ominous and subversive “lesbian agenda.” She alleged that there was...
By Jolene Tan, Programmes and Communications Senior Manager, Association of Women for Action and Research
Last Friday's commentary ("For many, parenthood is one part blessing and one part trauma") was refreshingly honest about the experience of parenthood.
Too often, new parents feel unable t...
By Jolene Tan, Programmes and Communications Senior Manager, AWARE
Ms Shelen Ang is right to suggest that we should value childcare – and other caregiving – performed by men (“Fathers deserve more recognition”, 14 June).
The Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE) has ...
By Jolene Tan, Programmes and Communications Senior Manager, Association of Women for Action and Research
Our society should rightly be pleased with its high ranking in the Save the Children report on motherhood ("Singapore best place in Asia to be a mum"; last Wednesday).
Singapore's low ra...
by Callan Tham
Following AWARE’s article with three fathers who shared their views on paternity leave in Singapore – “What fathers say on Father’s Day”, published in The Online Citizen on 16 June 2013 – Callan Tham, another father, wrote to AWARE to add his opinion about the current p...
by Abdul Shariff Aboo Kassim, Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir, Chan Kin Kok with Vivienne Wee and Ranjana Raghunathan
To mark Father’s Day, AWARE invited three fathers to give their views of the newly introduced paternity leave and conversion of one week of maternity leave to shared parental leave. Th...
When I became a mother five years ago, I experienced acutely what I had known as a sociologist — structural conditions matter.
In the first week after our baby was born, my husband and I were equally pathetic in our cluelessness; the learning curve was steep and we tried and failed together. We...
