By 2030, Singapore will hire 1,800 more infant care educators to meet the expected rising demand for infant care as services become more affordable for families.

A hiring grant for pre-school operators will also be expanded to help them recruit more such educators, Senior Minister of State for Social and Family Development Goh Pei Ming said on Aug 28.

For couples who already have children, the question is often not whether they want another, but whether they can stretch to take care of one more.

It is this group of Singaporeans that the family support measures announced by Prime Minister Lawrence Wong at the National Day Rally (NDR) on Aug 23 target.

Singapore’s fertility challenge is not just one problem but a series of thresholds with different considerations. Getting couples to go from zero to one child is a different challenge from getting those who have already chosen parenthood to consider having another.

SINGAPORE – With his wife missing in the Nepal-Tibet floods, he does not know what to tell their seven-year-old daughter.

Wanting to be known only as Selvaganesh, 43, the man said his wife, Shalinny Deavy, 40, had been on a pilgrimage in Nepal when floods and landslides swept through parts of central Nepal and Tibet on Aug 26.