Given the current climate of anti-reproductive-rights rhetoric, I can't help but reflect on the ways in which my parents
cultural norms prevented them from exercising their legal right to procreate.
The right to choose meant two things to two rural Catholics in the mid-1990s
either complying with cultural norms and having children they couldn't afford, or rebelling against those norms and abandoning their culture and support system.
The happiness of parenthood appeared to fade the moment they brought my siblings and me home from the hospital
despite their repeated declarations of wanting a family and their glowing descriptions of my birth and my siblings.
I sensed that I was unwanted even when I was a little girl. My parents never explicitly stated their desire to have children; however,
hey frequently reprimanded my siblings and me for behaving in a childlike manner or for exhibiting typical child demands.
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