While watching a TV serial - one of the saas bahu soaps (with my aunt of course) - i suddenly realised how our soaps tend to make a mountain out of a molehill!!
The scene showed had a son who had just discovered that his mother for 30 years is not his real mother... He had been put there in place of her still born child. My question is - does that change anything??
How does it matter? He was always a part of her life and was her son... Only now that she knows... Things will change...
Then the show moves to the next scene where he finds out who his real mother is... Lo and behold it is his own aunt - father's (the man he knew to be his father) brother and wife were the boys real parents... Even better right?
The biological mother did not mind, she sacrificed... But it was kept a well guarded secret to protect the family from all hell breaking lose...
My point is... This is a show watched across India - Balika Vadhu (child marriage) - and is known for showing social issues in a real perspective. The fact is, even in such a show, they depict adoption as a crime... Living in city, having dreams of wanting to settle away from the family all seems a punishable offence!
Wonder why??
So coming back to the point - is adopting bad? There is a population explosion in India... People keep having babies whether they have the financial capacity to handle a large family or not...
Fact is - there a millions of children who need the love and affection you would give a new baby - but instead people get swayed with the concept of blood is blood... Is it really?
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