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Families Let bigger households employ more maids
March 07, 2025
|The Straits Times
I refer to the article "Budget 2025: Families with three or more young children to receive more financial support" (Feb 18).
As first-time working parents, my husband and I could not cope without a confinement nanny and foreign domestic worker (FDW).
هذه القصة من طبعة March 07, 2025 من The Straits Times.
اشترك في Magzter GOLD للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة، وأكثر من 9000 مجلة وصحيفة.
هل أنت مشترك بالفعل؟ تسجيل الدخول
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