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Benny Wins Powerball

By Erin Gough

Benny wins the Powerball and faces pressure from his siblling to share his winnings.

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In Australasia Tags: family, child-rearing, Irony, luck, cruelty

I Stand Here Ironing

By Tillie Olsen

A poor single mother reminisces about raising her first-born child.

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In North America Tags: child-rearing, poverty, empathy

Mauricio (“the Eye”) Silva

By Roberto Bolaño

While reporting on prostitution in India, a journalist saves two children who have fallen prey to a sect in which young boys are subjected to ritual castration.  

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In Latin America Tags: child-rearing, cruelty, culture, exploitation, race and ethnicity, prostitution

Ysrael

By Junot Diaz

Two brothers set off on a mission to bully a disabled peer.  

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In Latin America, North America Tags: child-rearing, cruelty, discrimination

Miss Forbes’s Summer of Happiness

By Gabriel García Márquez

Two boys plot to kill their excentric and authoritarian nanny during a summer on an Italian island.

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In Latin America Tags: child-rearing, cruelty

Was it Heaven? Or Hell?

By Mark Twain

Two matron aunts hide from a mother who is ill with typhoid that her child has died from the disease.

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In North America Tags: truth, self-deception, health, child-rearing, religion

To Kill a Child

By Stig Dagerman

A speeding driver on his way to the beach with his partner runs over a child hastily crossing the road on an errand.

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In Europe Tags: empathy, child-rearing

My Parents’ Bedroom

By Uwem Akpan

The nine-year old Monique tells the story of the fate of her mixed Hutu-Tutsi family during the Rwandan genocide. 

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In Africa Tags: genocide, mixed marriage, war, reli, cruelty, child-rearing

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  • Ambition 1
  • Irony 1
  • Love 1
  • Manic-Depression 1
  • abortion 1
  • arranged marriage 1
  • authority 1
  • bullying 1
  • child marriage 1
  • child-rearing 8
  • compassion 1
  • conscience 1
  • corruption 1
  • courage 1
  • cruelty 11
  • culture 4
  • dignity 4
  • discrimination 6
  • domestic abuse 1
  • empathy 4
  • exploitation 2
  • false consciousness 1
  • family 1
  • feminism 7
  • forced marriage 1
  • gender 2
  • genocide 1
  • happiness 1
  • health 1
  • holocaust 1
  • incarceration 1
  • insanity 1
  • irony 2
  • love 1
  • luck 3
  • manipulation 1
  • meaning of life 2
  • medical ethics 1
  • migration 1
  • mixed marriage 1
  • morality 1
  • murder of tyrants 1
  • neurochemistry 1
  • paternalism 1
  • perspective 1
  • photojournalism 1
  • poverty 4
  • prostitution 3
  • public health 3
  • race 3

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