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About 745 children born out of wedlock annually from 2020 to 2024
The Straits Times
|October 16, 2025
12 subsequently adopted by biological parents within same five-year period: Masagos
An average of about 745 children a year were born out of wedlock to Singaporean mothers here from 2020 to 2024.
In a written parliamentary reply on Oct 15, Minister for Social and Family Development Masagos Zulkifli said that of this group of children, 12 were subsequently adopted by their biological parents within the same five-year period.
He was replying to Workers’ Party MP Fadli Fawzi (Aljunied GRC), who had asked for this data. He also asked about the Government’s plans, if any, to reduce the stigma surrounding illegitimate children.
Under the Legitimacy Act 1934, a child whose parents are not legally married to each other when the child is born is considered illegitimate. This remains so unless the parents subsequently marry or adopt the child.
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