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“Singapore Dream” Redux: Material Success, Flourishing or…?
For the longest time, the “Singapore Dream” has been about achieving material success through hard work, but attitudes are changing. In this “refreshed Singapore Dream”, is there room to focus more on human flourishing?
- 11 October 2024
NDR 2024 – Upcoming Parental Leave Enhancements: Are They Enough?
A survey commissioned by Cultivate SG and conducted by Milieu Insight suggests that societal attitudes on parenthood and work commitments may pose a challenge to take-up rates in the increases to paternity leave and shared parental leave.
- August 30 2024
The Childcare Conundrum: Who to care for baby?
Welcoming a newborn into the family is a joyous and life-changing experience, but who will take care of baby when Mum and Dad have to go back to work? In this article, we explore some options for childcare.
- August 23 2024
Update from Cultivate Commune: Singlehood, Marriage, and Friendships
Cultivate Commune is a breakfast conversation where we explore how big ideas are planted in real community experiences. In this third Commune on 6 July 2024, we heard from two long-time friends, one married with children and one single. What can we do to sustain our friendships through different life stages of marriage or having children?
- August 19 2024
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Cultivate Unpacks: Sex and Gender
Cultivate Unpacks is a series to unpack some of the current terms being used in social discourse today. In this piece, we look at “sex” and “gender”.
- 7 June 2024
Social Media: “Burn” Someone, or Light the Way?
Imagine that you have a flaming torch in your hand. The fire at the end of the torch emits both heat and light. You can use this torch to set fire and burn someone or something, or you can use it to light a path in the darkness.
- 31 May 2024
Is Identity Politics Always Bad?
There are two kinds of identity politics. “Common enemy” identity politics tends towards polarisation, division and conflict, while “common humanity” identity politics tends towards social harmony. We should have more of the latter, and less of the other.
- 24 May 2024