I would say, I came from a working class family. My father died very young unfortunately for him and for the family. Some deprivations, but not too much.. and it's the context of extended family which I treasured. I grew up with my uncles, mygrandmother, aunts and so on.Lorraine: Would you say then that your mother would have been the one that basically raised you?PM Goh: I would say it's my grandmother because my mother had to teach. And she taught at that time, in today's context it's quite near-but in those times in the remote village quite far away, so she stayed away for a week and would come back for the weekend. So it's a combination of grandmother and mother."-(CNN_com - Singapore PM Goh Chok Tong'sTalkAsia Interview Transcript - Feb_ 9, 2004)http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/02/09/talkasia.goh.script/http://www.littlespeck.com/content/politics/CTrendsPolitics-040125.htm

----------------------------------"As Goh was born in Singapore in 1941, he was an infant during the Japanese occupation years of 1942-1945. He came from a humble background, and in one of his parliamentary speeches he admitted that his two children were much better off than he was when he was young, as he was then living in a house with several families. Because Goh's father died when he was very young, his mother worked as a teacher in a Chinese school to support him and his sister. Both of them were raised by their mother with the help of their grandmother, an uncle, and an aunt."unquote. -(Goh Chok Tong - Definition of Goh Chok Tong) http://www.yourdictionary.com/goh-chok-tong#biography

-----------------------------------------"Retirement and deathGoh retired in early 1952, ending a