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What’s wrong with being a childless married woman?
Starting a family requires sacrifice, endurance and a strong partnership. It also needs to tackle the feminist desire to “have it all”.
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Singapore's Ministry of Social and Family Development designated 2022 the Year of SG Families.
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Some time back, when meeting some work contacts for the very first time, one of them asked me, after spotting the rock on my ring finger, if I had children.
When I replied that my husband and I had just got married and liked our quiet coupledom, I received a quizzical look from my unrelenting acquaintance and the question: “But don’t you want kids?”
