An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
Written by Ng E-Jay
05 November 2014
To this day, there continues to be discrimination against single unwed mothers in Singapore. This discrimination is unwarranted and unfair. Single mothers are women who have taken the responsibility of raising a child on their own when they could have easily abandoned the child at a foster home. They do not deserve to be punished simply because the government wants to promote the ideal of a two-parent family as the only acceptable standard.
The Minister for Social and Family Development Chan Chun Sing said in Parliament that whilst children get the same benefits whether or not their mothers are married, “benefits that are intended to support marriages and births within the context of families are only given to married mothers“.
This kind of discrimination is symptomatic of a government that is stuck in the Stone Age. It is symptomatic of a government that does not hesitate in punishing those who do not conform to the government’s idea of acceptable social practices, even though unwed mothers who raise children on their own are in fact the bravest souls on Earth.
The benefits that married mothers enjoy but single moms don’t include:
http://www.sgpolitics.net/?p=8943
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06-11-2014, 10:30 PM
Why the continued discrimination against single unwed mothers?
