The Asian American Life Crisis

Most Asian Americans are taught that it is essential to get the best education possible, obtain a high paying job in a stable career industry, and get married by their early thirties. If that is not too much, they’re also pushed to start having children soon after marriage to prevent a woman’s biological clock from ‘running out’. What is tragic about this trajectory is when Asian Americans can finally experience their adult independence psychologically and financially, they are pressured into giving it up quickly by taking on the enormous responsibility of parenting.