Research & Recommendations

Eyes on the Price – Supplementary Analysis of the Marriage, Parenthood and Success Survey 2025

This supplementary analysis builds on our previously published Marriage, Parenthood and Success Survey (2025) which explored individuals' various levels of orientation towards marriage and parenthood (MPO). This supplementary analysis of the same survey examines how respondents of different life status and MPO differ in their perception of prize and price of parenthood.

Parenthood and Work Survey 2024

Singapore Parenthood and Work Survey
Cultivate commissioned Milieu Insight to do a survey on parenthood and work. The online survey covered 1000 Singaporean respondents, including 600 parents.

Public Consultation on Gene Editing

As poet and environmental activist Wendell Berry wrote, the question of human limits “finally rests upon our attitude toward our biological existence, the life of the body in this world”.

Public Consultation on Maintenance of Racial Harmony Bill

“Without shared ideas on politics, morals and ethics no society can exist,” wrote Sir Patrick Devlin.

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Words make conversation

Words make conversation, and clarity breeds communication. We can grow the good, one conversation at a time because interpersonal dialogue humanises us.

Human Rights of the Family (Part 1): The Universal Declaration of Human Rights 

10 December 2023 marked the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. One provision declares that “The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.” How did this come about?

Human Rights of the Family (Part 2): Family as the Basic Building Block of Society 

Consistent with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Singapore Government has affirmed and emphasised the foundational importance of the family unit in its laws and policies. This is even in the midst of debates over the meaning and definition of “family”.

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