SINGAPORE – The PAP Women’s Wing will gather perspectives and lived experiences from women in Singapore to provide recommendations to the Government’s new inter-agency Marriage and Parenthood Reset Workgroup.
It will gather feedback through listening sessions with the public from May to November. These sessions will cover four broad areas: navigating parenting pressures; fertility; the journey of finding a partner and getting married; and the decision to have children.
The first session was held on May 2, with about 130 participants discussing the issue of parenting.
Ms Sim Ann, who chairs the PAP Women’s Wing, said it welcomes a reset in Singapore’s approach towards supporting marriage and parenthood, and will play its part in distilling women’s lived experiences and perspectives for the Government’s consideration.
She made this announcement at a Mother’s Day celebration event on May 9 in Rochester Park, attended by about 250 PAP Women’s Wing activists.
The wing will also delve into additional areas beyond the four themes, said Ms Sim.
“Your voices and your lived experiences must form the backbone of our recommendations that we intend to submit to the workgroup and to the Government,” she told the audience.
The new inter-agency workgroup was announced during the Budget debate in February after Singapore’s total fertility rate fell to a historic low of 0.87 in 2025.
