No Regrets, Having All Daughters

Because??? Oh YEAH, women ARE, WAY, WAY, W-A-Y, better than ALL of you, MEN!!! Translated…

The storms from the female T.V. entertainer’s divorce, the reason stated was, because she was, infertile, and, the marriage she had with her husband, for so many years, collapsed, due to this small problem. I’d felt strongly about this, not because I’d encountered similar situations, but because my husband came from a very traditionally Asian family, and believed, that the daughters-in-law must have sons.

Although, nowadays, we all know, that the sex determinant gene lies in the males, but, in the countryside, some thirty odd years ago, there’s not any of the awareness of this “scientific fact”. And so, I’d felt so much pressures, for having two daughters, and, a lot of the hard work all, landed on me, and I didn’t even, get enough rest time for my month-long recoveries of my two births.

As I got pregnant with my third child, and, after learning that it was, still a girl, some of the elders had, urged me not to have her, but, how can I comply! She was, a part of me, I’d gotten pregnant with her, not because something was amiss, but it’s all, due to affinity.

As my youngest daughter was born, I’d tried finding my husband work up north, so the children won’t get mistreated by all the relatives. And, the life of living away from home was too difficult, to the point, that I’d, contemplated divorce too, but, I’d finally, gotten through it. And now, we have a small diner, and my daughters are all graduating, and found good jobs, and good men.

During the holidays when we’d gone home to visit, we’d heard of how my older brother-in-law’s sons kept coming home to get money from them, and they were too spoiled from before, like those, baby birds that left the nests too late, and couldn’t go too far away in fear. I’d listened to their complaints in silence, and, looked over at my three beautiful girls, and felt glad, that their behaving themselves well, and being so close to me, was what took away my hard days’ work away. I’d often thought, that if I can make more money, and invest in them, they can become, even more, outstanding, but, they all seemed to see what I was worried about, and told me not to, think like that.

I’m so proud of having a family of five like this, it doesn’t matter if we have sons or daughters, the most important thing is, how we perceive and how we feel about our children, isn’t it?

And so, this totally, DEFIES the beliefs of how having SONS is what makes this world go ‘round, doesn’t it? Because, if you have sons, and they’d become, LEECHES like the brother-in-law’s in this tale, then, having sons, would be, totally, BAD, isn’t it? And, it doesn’t matter what SEX your child is, so long as s/he grows up, healthy, and into a good person.