Boat families

This family's house is their boat. They were the ones that took me up the Mekong river, from Laos into Thailand.


Look, they even have a satellite dish on it!


This is a lucky set of parents -- out of three kids they have three boys, meaning they will have three breadwinners to support them in their old age. In contrast, if they had had daughters, those girls would have eventually married and joined another family.

It's an amazing luxury for those of us in developed countries to not necessarily have to care about the gender of our children.

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