Commenting on the rising number of stay-at-home dads in Singapore, SMU Assistant Professor of Sociology Aliya Hamid Rao noted that stay-at-home dads face peculiar difficulties as there is "no social script" for stay-home dads unlike for stay-at-home mothers. These systemic factors range from a lack of dad support groups to a lack of societal prioritisation given to caregiving work, from notions of masculinity to schools that reflexively liaise with the mother, who is viewed as the primary parent.