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If you cannot take care of children, don't sire them

If you can't raise them,don't have them (Photo: iStock)

Case study: a middle-aged woman, doing quite well for herself, well-travelled, living a life many aspire to, on the outside looking very happy with life. She was not always well-off.

She had a poverty-ridden upbringing, which Kenyans love to refer to as humble beginnings (I keep thinking that Kenyans have no idea what the word humble means. There is nothing humble about poverty).

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