Life is short... cherish your family (Forum letter)

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I was shocked to read about a website that shamelessly promotes and facilitates extramarital affairs, and makes money out of it ("Dating site for cheating spouses 'not welcome'"; last Saturday).

I agree with Minister for Social and Family Development Chan Chun Sing that this website is not welcome in Singapore.

As a married woman, I am concerned about the website's destructive impact on marriages, families and our society as a whole. It promotes selfish indulgence, and is anti-marriage and anti-family.

The relevant authorities such as the Media Development Authority should block it.

Married couples should protect the sanctity of marriage. In times of marital strife, couples should seek help. Having affairs is just a form of escape.

Encouraging extramarital affairs is like encouraging someone to take drugs. Like drugs, an affair gives a high for the moment but destroys the individual and his family.

Also, society as a whole is not spared the ill effects of broken lives, broken marriages and broken families.

Life is short, cherish your family.

Ong Cheng Hong (Madam)