By Ng Tze Yong

MM Lee: On single S'porean women

My daughter is one of them. What can I do?

When she was in her early 30s, I told her, never mind all this.

My wife and I used to tell her, what you want is a M, R, S - Mrs.

She didn't think it was funny. Now, she is 50-plus.

I'm getting old, I've got a pacemaker... We've got this big house, everything is looked after now, but what happens when we are no longer there?

Who's going to run this place? Who's going to make sure that the maids are doing the right thing and so on and so forth?

That's the price she will have to pay...

She says, I'll look after myself, but she has not been looking after herself all these years.

She went abroad for her studies... and her cooking was just to take the salmon and put it in the microwave and eat it up.

You can do it and then go to the canteen, but when you do that day after day...

It's a choice she has made and a choice that 35 per cent of our women are making.

Who am I to complain, except that society lives with the choices it makes?

This article was first published in The New Paper.

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