The change comes at the point when many women have to consider their children.
But I implore any parent, any reader out there, to consider their children as human beings.
Howard and Marika Stone, authors of "Too Young to Retire: 101 Ways to Start the Rest of Your Life," recommend that older workers consider their children as a resource in starting new careers.
More generally, while women are likely to value their actual children and their status as mother over any abstract idea of lineage, men may consider their children, particularly sons, most valuable as maintaining the paternal bloodline.
"Something is wrong," she said, "when so many Americans have reason to believe that our country doesn't consider their children as precious and worthy of protection as other children because of the color of their skins".
For parents who uphold the ethical concept of unlimited responsibility, they consider their children to be their life-long responsibility unless their children have other effective supporting networks.
Since the parents consider their children a continuation of their own lives (Rivas, 2008), by accomplishing higher education the parents' migration project can still be considered successful (Tepecik, 2009).
