More Singaporean Men Are Marrying Foreign Wives
More Singaporean Men Are Marrying Foreign Wives For the past ten years, the number of Singaporean men marrying foreign women has been on the rise at a rapid rate. This development has seen community workers become apprehensive because most of the men are poor, old and their families live in abject poverty. Additionally, they are victims of human rights abuse, and securing the Singapore entrepass has been difficult. Numbers don’t lie. For instance, statistics show that, in the year 2012 alone, there were approximately 5600 marriages between Singaporean grooms and foreign women. These numbers represented a 40% increase from the 3900 recorded in 2002. In the past decade, an excess of 50000 Singaporean citizens have married foreign brides who are neither permanent residents nor citizens. Of the foreign wives, 95% of them are from neighboring Asian countries. The majority of the women, who are between 20 and 30 years old, hail from Indonesia, India, China, Vietnam, and Thailand. The numbe