This post is especially for those with daughters who are coming of age soon. Are you grooming your daughter? For what purpose?
I often see young girls about 16+ years old wearing branded items from head to toe and wonder, what the mother is thinking? What would happen if the girl can't afford those branded goods on her own when she left home. Well today I found out the reason: to position the girl well in the married mart. The idea is, if you groom her to look expensive, the poor chap will be scared off, and the rich chap will find her suitable. The idea is so Victorian but it is still being practiced among the creme de la creme of society, especially among Chinese Indonesian.
It makes me sick especially when the extensive extrinsic grooming is not balance with equally intensive intrinsic grooming. What you end up with is a self-centered and well-groomed future Tai Tais who baulk at hardship and bring misery to those who cross their paths. Is it not more important to groom our girls to be a woman of strong faith, loving character and firm integrity, who can stand strong even in the midst of hardship?
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