Two Parents Is Too Little

Differences in parenting between Sri Lanka and the UK

indi.ca
10 min readMay 26

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I have left my children in Sri Lanka which means they’re down to zero parents now. But they’re not. They’re with two sets of grandparents and one set of great-grandparents and two maids and a cook and a driver and two guards that follow them while they pretend to walk down the street ‘by themselves’. They say it takes a village…

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Indrajit Samarajiva is a writer from Sri Lanka. Follow me at www.indi.ca, or just email me at indi@indi.ca.