Behind Singapore’s troubled marriages
A larger proportion of those who marry young, have a lower education or are re-marrying have ended their marriages
As she held a positive pregnancy test kit in her hands, 21-year-old Chloe Yap started thinking about what lay ahead of her.
She had always looked forward to starting a family of her own, but imagined it to happen when she was a few years older. She immediately called her partner and her parents, who greeted the news with excitement.
She said: “My parents lean towards the traditional side, so of course, marriage was the first thing that came to mind.”
“I was full of emotions. I was happy but worried at the same time, because I was not expecting to get pregnant that early. My partner and I both had always made it clear that we were dating to settle down, so we saw eye-to-eye on getting married.”
In April, she and her 22-year-old partner, full-time national serviceman, took their vows at the Registry of Marriages.
But soon after they started their lives together, they met with a distressing setback when Ms Yap experienced a miscarriage in her fifth month of pregnancy.