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You are to take 3 to 5 minutes to read the relevant source for your stakeholder and utilize them to construct your arguments. You can draw on existing knowledge or other resources to construct your arguments.

Group 1: Family Support in Singapore Article
Group 2:  Housing for Single Mothers (Source B in worksheet)
Group 3: Housing for Singles in Singapore Article
Group 4: Shared Values in Singapore (Source A in worksheet)
Group 5: Government and Community Support in Low-Income Families Article
Group 6: Struggles of Middle-Class in Singapore Article

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- Each group member is required to perform at least one role.
- Choose your roles based on ability and interests.
- Constructor is not the only one who constructs the points. The role involves coordinating the points provided by each teammate and summarizing them into points to be delivered.

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- Records group's arguments and posts it on Padlet.
- Records other groups' arguments to be used to construct rebuttal.

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- Synergizes the different ideas provided by group members and summarizes them into arguments to be delivered by presenters.
- Draws on other groups' points to rebut which will be used by rebutter to be delivered during debate.

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- Serves the role of delivering constructed points to the class in a confident manner to convince classmates of the strength of your arguments.
- Spokesperson of the group

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- Serves the role of rebutting the points of other groups in the debate.
- Assists presenter in packaging points against the arguments constructed by other groups.

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33 year old Singaporean male, working in the IT industry as an engineer

Has 2 children, married to a Singaporean civil servant

Stand: Beneficial

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Family Support in Singapore
https://www.population.gov.sg/our-population/population-trends/marriage-&-parenthood/

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Marriage and Parenthood Trends
Similar to many advanced societies, Singapore's resident Total Fertility Rate (TFR) has been declining over the past decades. It was 1.12 in 2021. Our low TFR is largely due to the rising proportion of singles, later marriages, and married couples having fewer children. In the short term, birth rates can fluctuate due to external factors like economic uncertainty and the COVID-19 pandemic. In the longer term, demographic trends, progress and development in education, changing employment landscape, and societal values and attitudes towards marriage and family play a bigger part. Ultimately, getting married and having children are personal decisions, influenced by changing social norms, personal priorities, and economic sentiments.

Young Singaporeans have consistently expressed a strong desire to get married and have children. From our 2021 Marriage & Parenthood survey, 8 in 10 young singles aspire to get married and have children, and over 9 in 10 married Singaporeans want at least 2 children. These sentiments have held firm since our surveys in 2012 and 2016.
Support for Marriage & Parenthood
Supporting Singaporeans to fulfil their aspirations to get married and raise families continues to be our priority. Through close partnerships across Government agencies, and with community partners, employers, businesses and the broader society, a range of support is available to Singaporeans at every stage of their marriage and parenthood journey. The Marriage & Parenthood Package provides comprehensive support to help couples start and raise their families. Key measures in the Package include:

Schemes and grants to help couples own their first home

Schemes to defray costs of assisted conception, maternity and newborn care.

Financial support through the Baby Bonus scheme, comprising a Cash Gift and Government co-matching contributions to the Child Development Account

MediSave Grant for Newborns

Government-paid parental leave schemes

Subsidised infant care and childcare services

More details on all the support measures can be found at go.gov.sg/mpbooklet and madeforfamilies.gov.sg. Parents may also use the Family Support Calculator in the LifeSG app, to find out how much benefits they can receive. For parents to better manage their work and family responsibilities, we are working to cultivate more family-friendly workplaces. This is encouraged through ongoing efforts such as the Tripartite Standards on Work-Life Harmony, Unpaid Leave for Unexpected Care Needs, and Flexible Work Arrangements (FWAs) established in 2021, 2018 and 2017 respectively. The Government will strengthen provisions on FWAs by introducing a new set of Tripartite Guidelines on FWAs by 2024. The Guidelines will require employers to consider FWA requests from employees fairly and properly.

Beyond these, we must all do our part to ensure that Singapore is a great place to start and raise families. The Made For Families initiative was launched in June 2020 to further assure families of support from the Government and the broader society, and to encourage more businesses and community groups to play a part in building a family-friendly ecosystem. Organisations can submit their request to adopt the Made for Families brand mark here, to identify themselves as entities promoting the value of family in our society.

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Marriage and Parenthood Trends Similar to many advanced societies, Singapore's resident Total Fertility Rate (TFR) has been declining over the past decades. It was 1.12 in 2021. Our low TFR is largely due to the rising proportion of singles, later marriages, and married couples having fewer children.

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40 year old single mother with 2 children.

Singaporean.

Stand: Not beneficial

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Refer to Source B to assist you in constructing your arguments.

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Sec 3 SS Shared Values Tutorial (Sources)

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30 year old Singaporean male. Unmarried.

Stand: Not beneficial

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Housing for Singles in Singapore
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/housing/singles-unable-to-buy-new-prime-flats-as-numbers-are-limited-families-prioritised

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Singles unable to buy new prime HDB flats as numbers are limited, families prioritised for now: Desmond Lee

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New housing model untested in the market and not many units will be launched for a start, he said. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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Singaporean government official

Stand: Beneficial

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Please refer to Source A in the worksheet to guide you in constructing your arguments.

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Sec 3 SS Shared Values Tutorial (Sources)

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Member of low-income family. Single breadwinner. Singaporean. Spouse unable to work for medical reasons.

Stand: Beneficial

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Government and Community Support for Low-Income Families
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/community/budget-2022-low-income-families-to-get-more-support

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Budget 2022: Low-income families to get more support

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Dedicated and trained befrienders will be matched to each family to support those in need. . Read more at straitstimes.com.

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40 year old Singaporean male belonging to middle-class family. 3 children.

Working as mechanic.

Stand: Not beneficial

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Struggles of Middle-Class in Singapore
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/middle-class-in-singapore-feeling-more-insecure

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Middle class in Singapore 'feeling more insecure'

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The sense of security typically associated with being middle-class has given way to anxiety among such Singaporeans, as technology and globalisation widen income gaps and take away jobs, academics said at a forum yesterday. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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After the debate activity, what has changed about the assumptions that you had about shared values? What has made you develop this new understanding?

How has this impacted your understanding of citizenship with regards to shared values?

Please do post your reflections individually under this tab.

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Shared values are beneficial as they encourage the formation of family structures in Singapore through the incentives and benefits they bring towards such families, such as schemes and grants to help couples own their first home, schemes to defray costs of assisted conception, maternity and newborn care, financial support through the Baby Bonus scheme and more.

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It is beneficial.

Having families as the basic unit of society helps to increase social bonds and the mental and support, especially for children.

Everyone with shared values will have the same mindset. Hence, more initiatives can help these low-income families.

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we think is not beneficial, cause I just wanna protect my kids! not my country!!!!further more the gov doesn't not let me get some privileges that other mothers can which makes it harder for me to raise my children!!!!

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its beneficial because it helps to increase social bonds in the family + mental bonds, and the stakeholder can also support his family

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Beneficial as they take into account people who are single for multiple different reasons, such as obligations to family and two parents, matters of choice (and life.)

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ok can

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I learnt that shared values might not be beneficial for everyone, as some people would inadvertently get left behind as they do not fall into the scope of shared values/their values do not overlap with the national values. i made this understanding after reading about single mothers not falling into the umbrella of traditional families, thus causing them to mostly be put at the bottom of the priority list.

I now understand that if you become a citizen of a country, your personal values should somewhat align with the country's national values, otherwise it's very hard to do certain things in said country

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grp 4 (luke nicholas ze xuan and alethea)

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grp 4 (luke nicholas ze xuan and alethea)

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Source A shows that shared values are beneficial, as shared values often inspires communities to do things for the greater good that would not have been possible on their own and this in turn helps the community to become better. Source B also supports this point as unwed mothers have gained more recognition in society and are allowed to apply for HDB flats although some improvements can be made such as tax provisions for single parents as those areas are still lacking at the present moment

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i learnt that a lot of people are still not covered inside the welfare schemes of the government due to the prevailing "shared values" and societal norms in our community today, and while shared values can be beneficial to most improvement must be made to expand them to all so that Singapore can be a truly inclusive society to those within. What made me develop this new understanding was the sources which showed how different groups of people are treated differently and given different provisions under shared values and how much inequality still exists in our society.

This has changed my understanding of citizenship in that citizenship also encompasses the shared values embraced by a country and those who fail to comply with those shared values often have a hard time living in that country.

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I learnt that shared values may not be beneficial to the unity of a nation.
- Those with different views would not be considered equal to those who do, causing no feeling of belonging in the country to those people.
- We learn from our mistakes. Having shared values can sort of lead to having the same mindset. Having the same mindset does not allow us to look into all perspectives and empathise with others. Without these, we will not grow as a country, as we would not know how to improve the situation for those facing troubles.

Some shared values , such as integrity, may be beneficial though, to prevent chaos and rebellion in the country, and to keep the people safe.

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I learnt that shared values could pose something that is not beneficial. Considering that everyone follows their own personal values and personalities, some of which may not align with that the shared values, it is pretty difficult for everyone to follow these indirectly enforced rules. This would cause those who don't or are not able to follow up with the shared values to be under constant criticism or disrespect. Thus, shared values pose more lack of benefits rather than benefits. This has changed my understanding of what citizenship is since we're excluding and ostracising people such as single parents, all due to shared values. It seems rather unfair.
I am now weary of the fact that to become a "true" citizen of a country. You'll have to somewhat align your personal values and your personality to the shared values of a country. All so as to not be in the face of ridicule and disrespect.

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I learnt that shared values may not always be beneficial as there are people that may not be connected to them or get left out. I think that this leads me to believe that citizenship does not always require shared values. However shared values shouldn't be discounted completely as some still hold a lot of value like (kindness and integrity)