When Jessica Alba announced her pregnancy, a rather frightening thought crossed my mind: are out-of-wedlock pregnancies the way forward in today's society?
Doesn't anyone believe in the sanctity of marriage anymore?
Doesn't anyone believe in the sanctity of marriage anymore?
2 comments:
I think it's more of a cultural thing in the west where it's no longer seen as a taboo thing as compared to before.
In our asian context, the existing stigma about out-of-wedlock pregnancies is still rife and that compounded by strong family values acts as ongoing barriers to asians adopting the same laxities in lifestyle and attitude.
As it stands, in more developed cosmopolitan asian cities like Hong Kong, KL, Jakarta and Singapore, you don't see many (inc. high profile celebs) adopting the same lifestyle approaches as in the west, despite all the modernisation and globalisation over time.
If anything, any out-of-wedlock pregnancies here are usually unplanned or accidental - as opposed to deliberate, self-empowered 'I-want-to-be-a-single-parent' choices like we see in the West...
It would be interesting to see what K dot A has to say about this!
Great topic for discussion by the way... kudos for bringing it up! :)
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