Mabroky Caught Off Guard AGAIN!

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Mar 30, 2010

More living near parents

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More married children now live in the same estate as their parents. -- ST PHOTO: DESMOND LIM

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MORE married children now live in the same estate as their parents.
The proportion of such children rose from 29.3 per cent in 1998 to 35.5 per cent in 2008, according to a 2008 Housing Board survey of around 8,000 households.
The count comprises married children, aged 21 to 54, who live in the same flat, the same block, a neighbouring block or a block in the same estate as their parents.
HDB said it saw the 6 percentage point rise over 10 years as an encouraging sign that its housing policies to get people to live near their parents were a step in the right direction.
Since getting married in 2001, store assistant Kok Chee Keong, 43, and his wife have been living one floor below his parents in Ang Mo Kio. It was a deliberate choice, borne out of his desire to take care of them.
'My parents are getting old,' he said of his 72-year-old father and 69-year-old mother, who had until last year helped baby-sit his children who are aged seven and eight.
Read the full story in Tuesday's edition of The Straits Times.
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[Brightkid]

Yeh, MBT did not see it coming to hit him. He is too high up in his ivory tower.

Asian's filial piety has been around for centuries and he did not know about it. too busy countiung his salary which took too much of his time due to the amount.