I bent over a chair and was given three of the best with my trousers on. I did not think he lightened his strokes. I have never understood why Wester… - Lee Kuan Yew

There is a conspiracy to do us in. Why?... They see us as a threat to the rest of Singapore.

That was the year the British decided to get out and sell everything. So I immediately held an election. I knew the people will be dead scared. And I won my bet big-time.

It's not that we don't have single mothers here. We are also caught in the same social problems of change when we educate our women and they become independent financially and no longer need to put up with unhappy marriages. But there is grave disquiet when we break away from tested norms, and the tested norm is the family unit. It is the building brick of society. Governments will come, governments will go, but this endures.