'Family & work cannot both be 1st for young parents': IPS panel on changing marriage views in S'pore

"Family and work cannot both be first for young parents," declared Shannon Ang, Assistant Professor of Sociology at NTU. He was speaking at the Institute of Policy Studies’ (IPS) Singapore Perspectives 2024 conference on Jan. 29, 2024, as part of a panel titled "Youth and Family", discussing topics such as the growing embrace of singledom, postponement of marriage, and continual drop in total fertility rate across Singapore's changing demographic. Other members of the panel were Darius Cheung, co-founder of 99.co, and Yuvan Mohan, Council Member for Families for Life and the National Youth Council (NYC). The three men spoke about the various obstacles to youths' family aspirations, as well as how best to help young parents with children under their wings.

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