'It's only fair': More mixed-race couples in Singapore register double-barrelled race for children
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SINGAPORE – For occupational therapist Dawn Lim, 33, it was a “no-brainer” decision to register her children’s race as Indian-Chinese. Ms Lim, who is Chinese, is married to Mr Balaji Prem Chand, a 35-year-old physiotherapist who is Indian by race.'It's only fair': More mixed-race couples in Singapore register double-barrelled race for children
SINGAPORE – For occupational therapist Dawn Lim, 33, it was a “no-brainer” decision to register her children’s race as Indian-Chinese. Ms Lim, who is Chinese, is married to Mr Balaji Prem Chand, a 35-year-old physiotherapist who is Indian by race. They have three children – Kiaan Lucas Chand, four; Jaanya Elise Chand, two; and Ishaan Evan Chand, who is one month old. Ms Lim said: “It’s a no-brainer to choose the double-barrelled option so we can reflect both our races. It’s only fair to represent both races, instead of choosing one.” Like her, more mixed-race couples have chosen to register their children’s birth with a double-barrelled race, such as Chinese-Malay or Malay-Indian. A total of 2,326 babies of mixed parentage had a double-barrelled race in 2023, more than double the 1,067 such babies in 2014. Of babies whose parents are of different races, 28.4 per cent of them had a double-barrelled race in 2023, up from 12.9 per cent in 2014. Such data was presented for the first time in the Report on Registration of Births and Deaths 2023 published by the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) on July 11. Read more