My grandmother did the best she could with her children (two of her seven children died within the first year of life), but she and my grandfather did not have much money and the entire family lived in a one bedroom flat in India. We don’t know if she was able to plan her family the way she wanted to. We don’t know if she wanted to work or to go to school. We don’t know if there was any coercion or abuse going on. And we don’t know if she had any access to contraception. We just can’t assume things about people we don’t know much about.
