(628) Desire for sons

Sometimes I wonder if children are really our heritage? Let us see two real cases:-


1. There are these parents who had many children because they wanted two boys. The girls all turned out well. We have a lecturer, an accountant, a economist, an engineer and a senior corporate manager. One boy worked in computing and is self sufficient. The other, however, seemed to be the parents' constant burden. He married a girl who demanded a big house, a new car and a large allowance. When the business the parents helped her husband started was prospering, all went well. When there was a business down turn, the entity they cared for could not survive because husband and wife drained the reserve too fast and there was no fund to tide over the bad times. The business entity collapsed and the marriage almost ended too. By then, there were four children. It was fortunate that the husband found a job near his residence and the wife found a job that took her out of town on a regular basis. Things dragged on and even though there was constant bickering, they did not exactly end up contributing money to divorce lawyers. However, to keep things from unraveling, the parents had to stand in the gap. They cooked, they cleaned, they babysat, they shopped with their own retirement fund, they provided for the entire household even though they actually lived in a separate house nearby.

2. This couple had two biological daughters. They desired a son so much that they adopted one. Exactly as the case above, the daughters are graduates and earned good salary. The son, however, took many years and much funds from the father and could not qualify as a chartered accountant. In the end, after exausting the father's reserve, he took a bank loan and finished a basic degree. Now, one would think he could stand on his own two feet finally! No! He loves good food and fine living. Every month he borrows money from either his mum or his dad. Sad to say, the wife is equally extravagant. She spends all her pay on herself and her fashionable outfits. It is funny to see how two almost normal and sensible old people being milked on a regular basis. Their son seemed to be their blind spot.

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