Growing up in a family of 10, my parents instilled in my sisters and me - a brood of eight girls - the importance of familial ties: of never turning your back on family, and of the obligation to give back to our parents when we enter the workforce.
Maybe the ingraining of these values was because we were a tight-knit family, or maybe it was because caring for our parents is important in many Asian cultures such as in Singapore.
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