Letters to the Editor
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@ Anonymous 1:13
For once, I think I really see things your way. Not as regards the divorce and kids...but the reality of living hand to mouth. I find myself commenting here often on how blinkered and obliviously judgemental people with an excess of money can be.
I'm always 2 weeks' expenses or one emergency away from being on a friend's sofa. I buy whole milk just because it's more fat calories for the same price. I've taken work and put up with bad situations that I never imagined I would, for the pittance of a wage I had no replacement for. Health insurance? Don't make me laugh.
I am very troubled by the attitude of the American woman quoted, as well as the rationalization that American women who become surrogates just "like being pregnant." I don't like the idea of paid surrogacy--the involvement of money in such intimate matters and the control issues it seems to spawn troubles me. But judgement of the Indian women who choose this is a luxury of people who don't know what fear of starvation or utterly impoverished old age is.