When she sought treatment, in other words, Nadya was rich in offspring already but not in worldly goods.
There are a couple of stories in the second half that shift the focus to the rich, western-educated offspring of Pakistan's ruling class.
Moreover, brief in utero exposure to arsenic has been reported to alter DNA methylation in GC-rich regions among offspring (Xie et al. 2007), producing multiple tissue-specific tumors when the offspring reached adulthood (Waalkes et al. 2003, 2004).
For the East-Coast rich, banishing one's offspring to the hinterlands is a time-honoured summer tradition.
Duport had a modicum of fame at the time, and as the only royalist academic at Trinity, he was an especially popular choice to teach the offspring of rich royalist families.
Some foods act as methylators; a study of a species of fat mice prone to diabetes and cancer found that when they were put on a diet rich in methylators, their offspring grew up thin and without an increased risk of disease.
Rich officials and their offspring, the princelings, have always sat uncomfortably within a communist system.
In Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" he postulates that one solution to the problem of poverty in Ireland is that the poor sell their offspring to rich people as food.
It points to breeding efforts to separate A2-rich individual cows into their own herds, which creates A2-rich and A2-only offspring.
The result was centuries of downward mobility, in which the offspring of richer families continually moved into the lower rungs of society.
The series is as transparent as its inspiration – a Tumblr blog called Rich Kids of Instagram, featuring photos of the offspring of the rich sitting in private jets and whatever else constitutes their daily business.
