By Thulasi Muthulingam
Just like across the rest of the world, people in Jaffna are having less and less children now.
The maximum in most families is two; many opt to stop at one, and some don't have any at all.
I am not questioning their judgement - in this economic crisis, people can't afford to have more children.
At the Jaffna Artists Group. we are just concerned about the wellbeing of the children in this fairly new dynamic.
There are no siblings or enough neighbourhood children for the children to play with.
Helicopter parenting anywhere is a disaster but just imagine what the average Jaffna parent helicopter-parenting a single child would look like?
I can already see the results in my Gen Z adult students - who grew up with at least one other sibling often.
