Role swap

Wen Kok knew that there was something different with his family when he started schooling. He noticed that his friends' mothers sent them to schools and were always around to attend to them while their fathers went to work. It was the other way round in his household. His father stayed at home to see to their needs whereas his mother went to work in an office. His father even took them along after school to shop for grocery, pay all the bills - utilities, insurance, legal fees, and even bought them clothes when necessary. His mother worked hard. She tried her best to leave her office on the dot at 6 in the evening but occasionally she had to work late until 9 at night. He wondered whether this kind of alternative arrangement would start a domino effect in society and that more of his friends would see their fathers as homemakers instead of their mothers.