Singapore and the single mother
She is not married but she is financially stable and has the time and support network to enable her to raise a child.
Of course, this applies not just to financially stable older potential single mothers, young women and girls who get pregnant outside of marriage, for whatever reason, find themselves equally disadvantaged. And crucially single mothers don’t qualify for subsidised HDB housing until they are 35 and even then, they may not receive larger-sized family units.
Effectively, women are punished for having children outside of marriage and children born to single mothers also face an effective punishment — they are not treated equally. The country has some of the lowest birth and fertility rates in the world — with a woman on average having just one child in her lifetime.
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