Justifying and excusing young motherhood in Singapore

• Main Author: Chow, Janice Yu Shan
• Other Authors: Premchand Dommaraju
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/62434
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Young motherhood is predominantly perceived as a social problem despite the declining rate of teen births in Singapore. This suggests that the problematic nature of young motherhood stems not entirely from statistics of teen births rate but also from young mothers’ resistance to the “normal” life tr...