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Families Let bigger households employ more maids
The Straits Times
|March 07, 2025
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).
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