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* Friday, April 13, 2007 *

Singapore is more or less like a developed country even though it is still classified as a developing country. Nowadays, people in Singapore are very busy working and that they usually will not be at home most of the time. Professional parenting will allow parents to have children without the burden of raising them up. They will also be able to put in all their effort into furthering their careers without needing to divide their attention on their children. Parents will also need to move around to other countries, as their jobs will definitely require them to do so. It will be cumbersome for them to do so with their children in tow and relocate repeatedly. With professional parenting, they will be free of the problem of towing their children along with them and relocating repeatedly.

The children can still be able to get emotional support, which their busy parents will not be able to give due to their workload, from the professional parents, whom will be taking care of them. The professional parents may be family units, which consist of multi-generation. This means that the children under the professional parents’ care will have a variety of older people (models) to observe and learn from them qualities that are essential for them to pick up, so that the children will be able to adhere to the conditions that society will impose on them and survive. They will also not have to face the situation that they will have to move around and lose the friends that they make in their schools.

The fact, that modern parents are already entrusting their children to maids and child care centres, shows that the parents will not be adverse to professional parenting and may even welcome it.

However, I personally feel that professional parenting is not the way to go. It is much better for children’s genuine parents to take care of the children as the children are their own and they will give the personal care and attention. The professional parents are not compelled to do so and may not do so as those children under their charge are not theirs. The parents may want to acknowledge their children when they grow up or the children find out that the adults taking care of them are actually not even related to them. This revelation may cause the children to go haywire, as they may not be able to accept the fact that their parents throw them to professional parents just to further their career. They will develop hatred to their biological parents and they will end up hating the world at large. This is what happens when people find out that they are adopted or their biological parents sold them to their adoptive parents. Lastly, which mothers will actually abandon their children? The maternal love, that mothers have, will compel them to not do so. If they actually do so, the guilt that they will feel will haunt them for the rest of their lives.

Thus, I conclude that professional parenting is not the way to go for Singapore and that parents personally taking care of their children.

Done by: Elton

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