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There is slowly an emergence of daughters as caregivers, even though society, marital families, and the parents themselves still resist.
“Parenting” is a widely used term these days. People are prioritizing, implementing and sharing the tips and techniques for becoming better parents.
At a certain period, those kids become adults, and are responsible for taking care of their aging parents. This caregiving is similar to parenting in all major aspects, but gets differentiated in terms of specific gender roles.
This post is not intended to discriminate against the efforts made by the sons and their wives who play a crucial role in being primary caregivers.
But, this post is to shed a spotlight on how married daughters are also getting the liberty to equally share the responsibilities of their aging parents.
Recently, I came across an impactful short film, “Mu Dikhai” produced by MumToBe and V Seven Pictures.
In general, parents equally share and manage the responsibilities while taking care of their children.
But when it comes to their caregiving, they prefer to stay with their son’s family rather than being with their married daughter’s family.
Although in certain situations, this might not be their choice, they still bound to follow society’s traditions.
Contrary to societal expectations, there has been an increase in the number of daughters in recent years who are taking care of their parents post their marriage.
While daughters are changing the norms which are set by default, their husbands and in-laws’ families play a pivotal role by providing major support in this regard. This understanding and supportive environment helps the daughters to handle the dual family responsibilities efficiently.
In brief, society should also seamlessly welcome this changing trend and accept the perspective that caregiving of parents is not only subjected to their sons, but daughters can also equally contribute to change their family dynamics.
Image source: YouTube/ Short film Mu Dikhai
Nazia Tabasum A, published author and blogger has immense passion for writing. She writes about wellness, personal development, relationships, women's empowerment and social issues topics. She has received awards and certifications for her literary read more...
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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