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Hard choices as urban parents juggle child upringing with careers and social pressure

The mushrooming of poorly planned residential estates in Nairobi has also given birth to a generation of free-ranging children who have made parenting a nightmare.

“We now face two choices to either raise couch-potatoes or free ranging children who we have too little control over,” says David Wachira of Pipeline in Nairobi.

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