Originally posted by: RandomSquared
I really dont think grandparents have the right to have a say in whether the baby shud exist or not. they can give their opinions, but i dun think they shud say it the way Yashoda did,"what right do u have to abort the baby"
i guess shankar was sick of every1 yelling at him about everything, but i wish he had kept it to himself
then again i guess in the joint families in india, every1 has a say in everything.
see, i can't imagine my mom in law saying such a thing to me either - because i can't see her being responsible for the baby either. but in small town india, or in traditional families, it is very much the family's baby. all responsibilities of looking after the baby lie not only on the couple, but the in laws too. the baby is the inheritor, the waaris of all that is his father's family's. in that light, i found yashodha's comment one of wisdom and love and responsibility. because she has accepted gayatri as her responisibility and that does give her some rights too.
i know one of my aunt's prevented her dil from aborting her kid - saying i will look after it. and she does. my sister in law is very grateful, and doesn't look upon it as interference, but support.
so it takes all kinds of families....
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