I received this message from a young lady some time back:
“After my dad died some years back, my mother didn’t want to stay in the village anymore. She said that she didn’t want to stay alone. And we began to look for work for her. Through the help of my uncle (who was sponsoring my education at the time), we found a family in the city that my mother could go and work for as a live-in domestic help.
My mother eagerly accepted the job because she loves children and probably thought she was going there to play ‘grandma’ with the family.
She left that family over five years ago, but she has not stopped talking about her experiences with them, especially the couple’s attitude towards child upbringing.
According to my mother, the couple have four children, with the eldest being about 13 years old.
