This is also Asian Heritage Month, and my own mother\u0027s story is part of the rich cultural fabric of women\u0027s history and experience.
The women’s movement coalesced around this fight for women’s right to choose whether and when to have children. But even within the women’s movement, there were power struggles around this issue, with marginalized voices demanding to be heard.
The difficult choices around motherhood that poverty and oppression force many women to make is a story less told. Growing up in a family of Chinese heritage, I remember learning that my grandmother had to abandon twin daughters, an unimaginable situation for many mothers, myself included. It was not socially acceptable in China in that era, my mother explained, for a family to have more than two daughters.
Learning about all this as a teenager growing up in Canada, I was horrified. My mother would try to explain Chinese cultural mores of that era. “You have to understand,” she would say. “When girls are born to a family, they eventually marry and leave to enrich another family. Whereas a boy will eventually bring grandchildren, a wife, and additional wealth to the family.” In my mother’s view, these were hard economic realities that translated into a cultural value.
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