Don't wait to have kids

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http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_578755.html

Don't wait to have kids
He urges young couples not to be too obsessed with seeking a perfect life
By Cassandra Chew

Urging them to put up with some messiness, he said: 'I think we are a very perfection-obsessed society, and we forget that in seeking and waiting for perfection for our children, we end up not having any.' -- ST PHOTO: LAU FOOK KONG

DEPUTY Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean took a rather dim view of perfection last night, when he said young couples should not wait for a perfect life before having children.

Urging them to put up with some messiness, he said: 'I think we are a very perfection-obsessed society, and we forget that in seeking and waiting for perfection for our children, we end up not having any.'

Mr Teo, who is also the Defence Minister, gave this advice to women at a dialogue organised by a women's grassroots group of the People's Association called the Women's Integration Network (WIN) Council.

His comment followed an observation made by a participant about the fears many women have expressed about being a parent.

Ms Sharon Yee, from networking group Financial Women's Association, attributed it to the increasingly high expectations Singaporean women have of themselves.

'I have friends who say, 'I still have five more years before I want to have kids. And if I can't, I can afford IVF (in-vitro fertilisation)',' she said.

Read the full story in Wednesday's edition of The Straits Times.

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[middaydog]

Hedi agreed to that ?

 

[Soul_Reaper]

DUN BE CONNED !


F*CK THE WOMEN'S CHARTER !!!


:oIo: :oIo: :oIo:

 

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http://www.divaasia.com/article/10620

Wed, Sep 15, 2010
AsiaOne

Don't wait to have children

At a dialogue session held yesterday evening, Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean met more than 80 women from various women's organisations to discuss pressing issues faced by Singapore women.

Chief among these were the obstacles to having more children.

DPM Teo observed that Singaporeans were too obsessed with achieving perfection, and put off having children in their quest for seeking and waiting for perfection, that "we end up not having any."

Mr Teo, who is also Defence Minister, adviced women to put up with a bit of messiness in their lives, and that young couples should not wait for a perfect life before having children. The fertility rate stands at 1.22, which is below replacement level.

But many of the participants present pointed the finger at employers who were not pro-family, and that women were unable to achieve work-life balance as they were expected to fulfil parental roles as well as be effective, contributing employees.

Another issue raised was whether Singapore was a good place to spend one's retirement's years.

 

[denzuko1]

Don't wait to be perfect? So garment is now encouraging single parenthood?