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Taking a more hands-on role in your children’s day-to-day life is perhaps what they need to cope ably in a challenging world 

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Singaporean golfer Shannon Tan (centre) with her mother Winnie Cheong (left) and father Desmond Tan at the 2018 Tasmania Women’s Amateur Championship. 

Shannon Tan (centre) with her mother Winnie Cheong (left) and father Desmond Tan at the 2018 Tasmania Women’s Amateur Championship. 

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Over the past few weeks – and not for the first time in recent months – the topics of mental health and fertility rates appeared in close quarters in the news cycle.

In and of themselves, the stories were not linked – but deducing as much would be missing the point. By now, one can say with a certain level of unambiguity: There is a correlation between the two.

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