Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Chermaine/To what extent is Singapore a family-friendly society?
Singapore is a family-friendly society as the government have implemented policies to promote better family lives. Family lives have been improved by allowing families to spend more time together. Singapore can be seen as a family-friendly society due to the numerous measures that the government take to allow family members to spend more time together. An example would be the new implementation of the ‘five day work week’ . Civil servants only have to work for five days in a week, having Saturday and Sunday as a rest day for them to be able to spend more time with their families on the weekends.In schools, ‘five day work week’ has also been implemented to allow students and working stuff to have the weekends to spend more time with their families. Family day , whereby the whole family get together for a day to enjoy all kinds of activities together to forge closer family ties have also been introduced in Singapore so as to have better family lives. However, Singapore might also not be a family-friendly society as the standard of living is rather high in Singapore. This therefore discourages more people to give birth or even start a family. According to the latest survey by Economist Intelligence Unit in March 2009, Singapore is one of the most expensive cities in the world, moving up five positions to 10th place. Hence, with high living expenses, people are more worried that they will not be able to support a family least say raising a child. Therefore, less people will be willing to start up a family and hence, Singapore might not be a family-friendly society.
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Conditions: Singapore is a family-friendly society as the govt implements policies to encourage family cohesion.However, it is not a family-friendly society as the high costs of living as adults focus more on supporting themselves (or their family) financially rather than nurturing stronger family ties.
ReplyDeleteYour paragraph has the structure but maybe you can elaborate more on why families are so important. :)
I agree with Alynna that your paragraph has the structure and that your limitation is not about your example but a new point. :)
ReplyDeleteConditions are clear, saying that whther families want children or not. Good examples given too (five day work week)
ReplyDeleteI feel that you can give statistics about 2007 and 2008 for the part talking about singapore being one of the most expensive cities so that we can see the comparison. :]
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