Singapore is a family-friendly society as the government has taken necessary measures to ensure family bonding. Policies are set so as to ensure that parents have sufficient amount of time to spend with their children. As parents may get become too focus on their work and neglect their children in the process, such family bonding time is necessary to ensure that the family members still understand each other. If not, they may just drift apart which leads to a broken family. As the importance of family bonding has been observed by the government, they have setup policies such as the “5-day work week”. This ensures that parents will spend a certain amount of time with their children each week. However, there are also times where the families do not put in the effort to ensure family bonding happens. For example, parents may bring home work to do over the weekend as they are unable to complete during working hours. The children may also choose to go out with their friends instead of spending time with their families. Thus this policy may not be truly effective as the family may not do their share to ensure that this policy works and family members are neglected in the process of their "selfish" behaviours. However, Singapore is still considered a family-friendly society as the importance of family bonding is being seen by the government and society. Thus most families will take the responsibility to ensure that such policies will work, and family bonding will occur.
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I agree with your point! (: Due to the fast-paced lifestyle, many would prefer doing what they deemed as more important rather then spend time with their family. The government definitely needs to come up with more new and effective policies to succesfully combat this problem.
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