🌍 Changing Dads around the world

What each culture can teach you

1. 1. What to prepare

   Discuss which caregiving traditions you want to keep and which assumptions to challenge.

2. 2. What to check

   Share care in ways that fit your family, including single, adoptive and same-sex parents. Avoid ranking cultures or treating stereotypes as evidence.

3. 3. In Singapore

   Mummy, daddy, nappies/nappies, cot, pram/stroller and polyclinic are familiar terms, but household languages and names differ. Confinement practices are family choices, not medical requirements; do not delay feeding, washing or urgent care to follow a custom.

4. 4. In Singapore

   Section 377A was repealed with effect from 3 January 2023: consensual private sexual activity between adult men is not criminalised by that repealed provision. This did not legalise same-sex marriage or automatically grant joint parentage, adoption or leave rights. Marriage recognition, Muslim and civil marriage frameworks, ART access and parentage are distinct legal questions.

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