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How do you talk to your children about sex?
It's a topic that many parents are happy to put of...
This article was originally published in Channel NewsAsia on 5 November 2018.
In Singapore, women earn a staggering S$640,000 less than their male counterparts over a 40-year career.
The differential, which includes CPF contributions, was calculated as part of AWARE’s ongoing research on ho...
By Xenia Low, AWARE intern
On 11 August, more than 300 people showed up at the Singapore Post Auditorium for the Poverty has a Woman’s Face panel, where we launched AWARE’s report ”Why are you not working?: Low-income mothers explain challenges with work and care. The panelists delved int...
For many families in Singapore, home is a stable sanctuary and a space to unwind. Single-parent families want the same things. But many have to also grapple with frequent moves, housing insecurity and tighter finances.
Five storytellers, all from single-parent families, bare their homes and ...
This article was originally published in The Straits Times Forum on 5 September 2018.
We refer to the article, “When home is where the sex abuse is”, where the writer cites lawyer Lee Terk Yang’s suggestion that the non-offending parent should face legal action for failing to report child s...
This piece was originally published in Channel News Asia on 19 August 2018.
[caption id="attachment_39615" align="alignleft" width="496"] A father and his child at the first Baby Museum Tour in The Hague. (Photo: AFP/ANP/Robin van Lonkhuijsen) Taken from CNA[/caption]
According to a survey o...
This post was originally published as a press release on 10 August 2018.
To help break low-income mothers out of poverty, gender equality group AWARE recommends that low-income households should have access to free good quality formal childcare; the State should put in place a robust employment...
This article was originally published as an op-ed in The Straits Times on 17 July 2018.
[caption id="attachment_39458" align="alignleft" width="300"] ST PHOTO: SONG TAO[/caption]
Two years ago, we embarked on our current research to answer this question: Why are low-income mothers, who want t...
June* is a 49 year-old Filipina and has been living and working in Singapore for 25 years. She was married to a Singaporean man and have two children together. They got divorced in 2008 and June gained custody and sole care and control of the children, who were 13 and 10 years old. After the div...
