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Understanding Family Therapy: Why It Is Important
PART 1 – INTRODUCTION Our family members play a crucial role in building us up. Their support provides us with a safety blanket, nourishes us, and helps us grow to become our best and truest selves. However, maintaining family harmony takes hard work, thoughtful…
September 17, 2024
The Boy Who Would Be King: Aasif and All His Friends
Aasif Ahmad is busy preparing himself for his PSLE exams in October. But no one is able to care for the 12-year-old at home during the day when he’s done with classes at Telok Kurau Primary School. His mother, a single…
January 16, 2024
Even in Happy Households, Couples Cheat. But Why?
The signs weren’t there at all. By all accounts, *Danial has a great relationship with his wife. After 5 years of marriage, they’ve established a solid family foundation with two kids and a cosy home. They’ve had no history of…
January 16, 2024
The Masculine Urge To Reject Help
After going through surgery due to diabetes in 2019 and a recent bout with kidney failure, *Aiman has to rely on a personal mobility device to get around his rental flat in Ubi. As the 44-year-old depends entirely on his Indonesian…
January 16, 2024
Hope and Heartbreak: The Weight of Psychological Baggage in Stepfamilies
Can stepfamilies with its own set of dynamics and challenges thrive as any other type of families? In 2021, 19.5 per cent of marriages in Singapore comprised remarriages for one or both partners. Within the Muslim community, 39.5 per cent of marriages are…
January 16, 2024
Borrowed, Not Birthed: The Foster Parents Fostering Hope for Children in Need
Mdm Lydia and Mr Noorirwan, and Mdm Erica and Mr Raihan are part of a small but essential community of foster parents who take in children placed in foster care. But what sets them apart from other foster parents is the fact that…
January 16, 2024