SINGAPORE: Picking up from an idea suggested by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong earlier this year, 60 parents turned up for a parental matchmaking session on Sunday to find partners for their children aged between 25 and 45 years old.

This follows the success of the first such session in September where 80 parents turned up.

Many of today's participants declined to be identified as they had signed up without their children's knowledge.

Organisers also conducted a talk on how to broach the idea of parental matchmaking with their children as some singles may mistake it as a form of arranged marriage.

But organisers said it's just a way for singles to expand their social networks.

Lydia Gan, parental matchmaking session organizer, said: “I did call up some of the parents who attended the first parental matchmaking and their children actually did follow up and make contacts with the other family's children. So it looks very promising, that they do go out, they date, and they do explore the possibility of friendship and maybe taking the relationship further.” - CNA/vm