while living in China, from having their children taken to abandoning them on the roadside, we understand their restraints come from fear and superstition. June and the other younger Asian Americans struggle against the superstitious beliefs of the older women. One abandoned her twin babies because she thought she would die and didn't want them to have the "bad luck" of a dead mother, while another prayed her arranged husband would not be too old and got a 10-year-old boy for her efforts (Wang 1993). "Maybe I prayed too hard" she exclaims (Wang 1993)! Yet
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