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Helen Liang Memorial Secondary School (Shatin)

and daily necessities. How is it possible for some blue collars, who merely earn ten
thousand dollars a month, to take care of their children? We live for ourselves, not
for sustaining our family legacy. The situation or mindset of traditional values are no
longer applicable to our society. We have no time, no money, and to many, no role
models. How can we have a baby when we lack knowledge and sufficient resources
to raise them?
No one is born to be a baby-making machine. We can choose our own future
to have babies or not. If parents from the older generation keep putting pressure on
young couples to have children, it will soon backfire.

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