Written on 31st July 2007. D was a baby :)
Was going through a friend's blog, and the campaign by J&J called "Having a Baby Changes Everything" came to mind.
This campaign hasnt been launched in India and I wonder why? Does this insight not apply in our culture. Does life not change as much after having a baby in India as much as it does in the west? Is it possible that in the traditional Indian Joint family setup, it may not. The mother is oppressed before she has a baby and remains oppressed after. The baby becomes another tool to subjugate her. And the father remains the same man who has to show minimal invovement in his "own little" family consisting of wife and child in the interest of displaying loyalty to the larger family consisting of parents, grandparents, sisters, brothers and their families. He still remains the man who enters the wife's room after its dark! Moreover, there are so many people to help out with the child that life after having a baby is not as starkly different.
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