Marriage Dissolution in Singapore Revisiting Family Values and Ideology in Marriage 1st Edition by Paulin Straughan ISBN 904742493X 9789047424932

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ISBN 10: 904742493X 
ISBN 13: 9789047424932
Author: Paulin Straughan

PREFACE This book arises from possibly the most comprehensive survey on divorce, done in Singapore. In 2001, Mr Laurence Lien, who was then Director of the Family Studies Division of the Ministry of Community Development, Youth & Sports (MCYS) invited me to be consultant for the proposal he had on a study of divorce in Singapore. I thought the proposal was both timely and of great social significance for two main reasons. First, there was no available comprehensive quantitative data on divorce; so much of what we know about divorce in Singapore was based on either small-group non-representative qualitative studies or anecdotal evidence. While the Department of Statistic publishes an annual report on divorces trends (“Statistics on Marriages and Divorces”), the report details mainly demographic characteristics like age, ethnic group membership, and duration of marriage. No information is available on divorce across the life cycle—so we know little about when the stressors of marriage occur. The only comprehensive sociological study on divorce was done more than 2 decades ago by Aline Wong and Eddie Kuo (see Wong & Kuo 1981). Much has changed in the social fabric of Singapore society since then, with married couples having to overcome new challenges in the course of their marriage. It was time to capture the slew of this new information. Secondly, the urgency of such a study piqued due to the rise in divorce cases. Marital dissolutions consistently increased from 1985 to 2005 (Singapore Department of Statistics 2005:11), and the 6909 divorces recorded in 2005 was an all-time high. We commenced the project in 2002 with an analysis of the administrative data. In my own research on marriage and family in Singapore, I developed a thesis on the implication of changing ideologies governing courtship, family roles, and marriage across the life cycle. I was particularly interested in the changed normative expectations we attached to the ideal mate, the importance of romantic love in marriage, and the evolution of intensive motherhood. Central to these themes was the changed social status of women, and the significance of paid work in women’s lives. In my first working paper on sociology of the family, I had begun to identify contradictions in the social structure which made it difficult for young married couples to find congruency

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