commentary

I refer to Aw Mun Khay’s blog entry entitled “ Are career demands killing marriages in Singapore? ”

I agree with Mun Khay to a large extent that career demands is a main cause of divorce and unhappy family. She mentioned that people overwork and force themselves through strenuous programmes to upgrade their skills while struggling to juggle with their already heavy workload. Thus, they neglect their families and spouse, resulting in divorce. I assume that she is only referring to the lower and middle-income group members. In fact, even people holding high-ranking position faced heavy workloads and long working hours.

I too agree with Mun Khay that all the above are one of the main causes of family miscommunication, leading to divorce and for a country like Singapore, it is best for us to do something about rather than moan about it after it worsen. As mentioned in her entry, Singapore’s only main resource is humans. If most of our people overwork themselves and neglect their families, not only will Singapore have a sickly workforce, we would also experience high divorce rate that will in turn result in low birth rate, which would then affect our main resource. The government should thus take measures to take care of this problems and the solution in Mun Khay’s entry are feasible ones.

In conclusion, Singapore cannot afford to have workforces that always fall sick due to overworking. The government should help reduce this problem to as minimum as possible.