... look after their children, returning to work when their children become older. As a result, there is a decline in stay-home mothers who are able to spend quality and quantity time with their children. To make matters worse, the rise of the global economy often results in parents being sent on overseas working trips for an extended period of time. Consequently, parental supervision is often found lacking in dual-income families as both parents can ill-afford to spend much time with their children due to their hectic work schedules. More often than not, parents are too tired at the end of the day to spend time interacting with their children, let alone supervising their schoolwork. Although one can argue that private tutors can act as surrogates when guiding a child in his/her studies, the ultimate responsibility of infusing the correct social and moral values still falls on the parents themselves. Therefore, ...

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