With me never having had any children, you have given me something to think about. Many parents will do almost anything to make sure their children continue to thrive.
Not almost anything, most would die for their children to survive.
Including working at menial jobs for a living. Mine sure did.
“Many parents will do almost anything to make sure their children continue to thrive.”
I know a gal from Vietnam. Her dad was taken by the government and sent away for many years. (He left for work one day, and they didn’t hear anything about him for a year - didn’t know if he was dead, in a camp, etc.)
Her brothers worked the fields, and she and her mom and the baby sister would beg. She said she was always jealous of her brothers that would get two balls of rice a day to her one (they had to keep up their energy to work).
The mother would get whatever was left over. Which unfortunately wasn’t enough to keep breastfeeding the baby - which died. So much for the utopia that Communism provides and the liberals were wishing on Vietnam.