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When family honor conflicts force you to choose between parents and children

I married someone from a different caste and now my parents won't acknowledge our children exist and I have to explain to my kids why they have no grandparents on my side.

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A parent bears the ongoing cost of challenging traditional boundaries while protecting their children from inherited shame.

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