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Singaporeans hold a healthy mindset on the importance of family. Most emphasize strong family ties and cherish family values. Singaporeans also possess marriage aspirations and desire to be parents and have more children. However, the gap between reality and ideal persists. Competing priorities and responsibilities between motherhood, fatherhood and jobs pose tough challenges for parents to ensure that family commitments remain as the main anchor. Increasingly Singaporean families feel that they need dual incomes to survive, and they need to prioritize quality before quantity when they make a decision about the number of children they will have.
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Quek, K.MT. (2022). The Evolving Challenges of Modern-Day Parenthood in Singapore. In: Selin, H. (eds) Parenting Across Cultures. Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science, vol 12. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15359-4_6
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