Why is Singapore so sensitive to a play about marital violence and other forms of abuse against Muslim women?

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The serious case review said Child BO5's parents "had been involved in a long-standing relationship punctuated by significant periods of instability, marital violence and alcohol misuse, particularly latterly by mother".

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The fund can only be used to fund services to people who are the victims of marital domestic violence.

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Maybe if we could make it a hundred bucks instead of five it would be worth it along with an excise on shacking up to fund a program for non-marital domestic violence, which brings me to the lawyerly stuff in the decision.

FORBES: Taxing Marriage To Fund Domestic Violence Grants - Sense Or Nonsense ?

The initial version of the bill was drafted to criminalize physical and sexual abuse, so-called "honor crimes" and marital rape, create specially-trained domestic violence response units within the police, and provide the legal framework for restraining orders to be issued against abusers.

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