As most Parsis marry late, there is a considerable age gap between parents and children. Having a child in mid-life makes parents overly protective, so they provide excessive care, attention, concern and love which make the child grow up with reciprocal feelings. Sometimes such spoon-fed children grow up to be sissies. When parents become older and the children are in their mid-20s or 30s, the rigmarole of parental care begins — monitoring medication, trips to doctors, physical assistance or service.
Parsi parents often think nothing of the fact that their child, who is now in his 40s, is still single. They......