SHOOT: Is having a child your motive to make yourself happy? A rather selfish motive perhaps.
It’s a story about a family in an emotional crisis and as a solution they adopt a child. “This couple is trying to do things that will ultimately make the wife in the story feel happy. Adopting a kid seems like a good strategy and they convince themselves that they are doing a good thing for the child, but really they are doing it to make themselves feel better — a selfish motive that they choose to ignore .
“But there’s a psychological thing that happens when a vulnerable child enters a family. Parents assume that the child is weak and helpless and that they must protect and nurture them by being parents with open hearts for them. I guess parents feel vulnerable, because the kids are sort of little gurus when they come out of your belly, you know? They control everything that goes on around them in a lot of ways. Usually the power that a child has is innocent, but what happens when the child knows that they can manipulate the naive and insecure parents?” asks Silver.
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