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Jun 19, 2017
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My rating 3.6
In the book, The Buried Few writer M.J. Lau leads us to a dystopian world in which the right to parenthood is not for everyone. After the war, many children remain orphans and the caretaker families take over the children, but it soon crosses the borders of the normal and states the entire population divides into three classes, and the children literally dissociate themselves from the family and give them custodian families. Soon, controlling birth is becoming a normal thing, and no ...more
In the book, The Buried Few writer M.J. Lau leads us to a dystopian world in which the right to parenthood is not for everyone. After the war, many children remain orphans and the caretaker families take over the children, but it soon crosses the borders of the normal and states the entire population divides into three classes, and the children literally dissociate themselves from the family and give them custodian families. Soon, controlling birth is becoming a normal thing, and no ...more
The Buried Few is a fascinating dystopian tale set in a not too distant future where the government's regulation of parenting has become complete. Aided by technology that people willingly accept in their lives , and by the willing compliance of a generation that was raised by adoptive parents because their biological parents were too messed up by the wars, the government has complete control over who can have kids, who can raise them, and who will be considered "other" because they have no stak
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