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Five Things I Wished I Knew Before Planning Just One Child in America
Our kids are going to be so angry with us one day. We’ve charged their future on our Visa cards — Thomas Friedman
You cannot erase the ill effects or benefits associated with your place of birth
I was born and raised in India, a country I should have never been born in. I say this as everything from my views, to my talents, did not pass my inheritance.
It was a land not suited for my distorted, liberal-minded family or me. We were three girls raised by a very disoriented set of parents who should have had little ones after growing up a little.
When you have three daughters in a country like India, raised in the rape capital, New Delhi, you ought to be a little more vigilant. My parents were consumed in their hunger to earn money and enjoy life and did not see what the servants did to their girls.
We were abused by acquaintances at home and by strangers on Delhi’s unforgiving streets. If the patriarchal nature of society in India did not make me hate the country enough, the lack of opportunity for me to grow my talent did.
