Desperate Bid to Keep Up With Mounting Bills!

[makapaaa]

Fri, Apr 30, 2010
The New Paper
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Young children left to fend for themselves at home
by Veena Bharwani

WHEN the baby cries, Wati (not her real name) picks him up and comforts him.

She then makes some milk for the one-year-old boy and feeds him from a bottle.

It is a tender, motherly routine. Except that Wati is not the tot's mother.

Wati is eight years old.

With help from her brother, nine-year-old Ali (not his real name), Wati takes care of her two younger siblings, a one-year-old boy and a three-year-old girl.

The four children are left to themselves throughout the day because both parents have to work, in a desperate bid to keep up with mounting bills. We are not identifying the family as the children are minors.

This has been going on for months. The children mostly fend for themselves on weekdays. And the two older kids are frequently absent from school.

Liza, the 28-year-old mother, said she got pregnant too young, at 19, and because of pride, was unwilling to get help early.

Her plight is typical of problems faced by some families. It is an issue that was raised in Parliament yesterday.

Liza's family is in a dilemma because their combined income of about $4,000 rules them out for financial aid.

She is an administrative assistant, and her 29-year-old husband is a deliveryman.

Usually, only families with a monthly income of less than $450 per person can get aid.

They are in debt because Liza quit her job four years ago to look after her kids and her husband's pay wasn't enough to meet the monthly instalment for their HDB flat.

They can't turn to their parents to look after the children because of "personal conflicts".
To complicate matters, it appears that Liza's husband hits her.

Neighbours who alerted The New Paper to the family's plight said they have heard loud arguments and Liza screaming for help.

Liza herself declined to comment on this.

 

[halsey02]

Have they not heard of BIRTH CONTROL?...condoms are easily available these days & so are a host of Birth Control measures...

They have nothing to blame, but themselves...

 

[shOUTloud]

$4k a month also not enough?

 

[saratogas]

The four children are left to themselves throughout the day...444444444

I hate irresponsible parents, enjoyed the sex but throw the kids around.

 

[cooleo]

>>The four children are left to themselves throughout the day because both parents have to work, in a desperate bid to keep up with mounting bills.<<

4 chewren, still got cheek to say no money? Fuck first, think later?

 

[Brightkid]

It is very difficult to guess the race of this family. 4 young children, young parents worked as admin assistant and deliveryman.....

The psuedo names like Wati and Ali doesn't help give any clue either.

Guess they were about at least 15 years late. They should have heed LKY's call then to limit to 2. Slogans like "2 is enough", "The more you have, the less they get", etc., would had hit them like a brick wall.

Guess raging hormones are more powerful than LKY's slogan even back then.

 

[cooleo]

It is very difficult to guess the race of this family. 4 young children, young parents worked as admin assistant and deliveryman.....

The psuedo names like Wati and Ali doesn't help give any clue either.

Guess they were about at least 15 years late. They should have heed LKY's call then to limit to 2. Slogans like "2 is enough", "The more you have, the less they get", etc., would had hit them like a brick wall.

Guess raging hormones are more powerful than LKY's slogan even back then.

Raging hormones?! More like blinding stupidity! Wanna fuck also use condoms la!

 

[elephanto]

The psuedo names like Wati and Ali doesn't help give any clue either.

From the photo at the link, looks like Malay kids, unless that picture also a posed file pix .... that's why the use of Malay names but not necessarily real names....

 

[Jabba]

things have gotten that expensive...earlier on i was thinking of the 7% gst that goes to help the poor...let's take sg population at 5000,000..let's assume everyone spends $10 a day...that will make 50,000,000...therefore GST per day is 3,500,000. and GST collect per year is 1,277,500,000. Assuming there are 50,000 poor households in sg...we split 1,277,500,000 with 50,000. Every poor household will get 25,550 per year...so where are the poor ppl in sg...show me!