Date: 27 June 2017 (Tuesday)
Time: 7pm - 8.30pm
Venue: AWARE Centre (5 Dover Crescent #01-22)
Light refreshments will be provided. Childcare can be arranged - please email media@aware.org.sg with number of children and their ages, by 25 June
REGISTER HERE
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Single parents in Singapore grapple with a myriad of problems and restrictive rules when it comes to meeting a basic need – housing. Think this should change? Sign our petition urging changes to housing rules for single-parent families. Read more about our recommendations for how policies shou...
Home isn’t simply a physical space to live in. For many single parents in Singapore, finding a home of their own is an arduous journey, and for some, it remains a pipedream.
Last Wednesday, over 40 people - 20 of whom were single parents - gathered at AWARE to share about their struggles and f...
Single parents in Singapore grapple with a myriad of problems and restrictive rules when it comes to meeting a basic need – housing. Think this should change? Sign our petition urging changes to housing rules for single-parent families. Read more about our recommendations for how policies should...
This post was originally published as a press release.
To mark Mother’s Day (14 May) and International Day of Families (15 May), AWARE launched a petition bringing together single parents, their children and supporters in calling for changes to housing policies. The petition launch is accomp...
An edited version of this letter was published in The Straits Times forum on 13 May 2017.
The recent report of an unmarried mother adopting her biological child ("Unwed mum adopts own biological daughter", 11 May) highlights the inappropriateness of branding children “illegitimate” and penali...
Single parents in Singapore grapple with a myriad of problems and restrictive rules when it comes to meeting a basic need – housing. Think this should change? Learn more at our upcoming dialogue session on housing access for single parent families. Read more about our recommendations for how ...
Single parents in Singapore grapple with a myriad of problems and restrictive rules when it comes to meeting a basic need - housing. Think this should change? Learn more at our upcoming dialogue session on housing access for single parent families. Read more about our recommendations for how ...
Everyone deserves a home. But Singapore's housing policies create hardship for single-parent families. HDB's complicated rules favour married couples, leaving single parents scrambling with frequent house moves, financial drain, strained family relationships, emotional stress and long waits, just f...
