coincidentally, the two films i watched in the past 3 days revolve around the theme of educating prostitutes' kids... Born into brothels was about how an American photographer tried very hard to help some students in her photography class (kids of women who worked in Calcutta's red light district) get a decent education... and The Goddess or Shen2nu3 (a1934 silent movie starring Chinese actress Ruan Ling-yu) was about how this prostitute tried very hard to give her only child a decent education, only to be mocked by peers prejudiced against her (and in turn her son too) due to her lowly and supposedly degenerate occupation... it just makes me sad.. how sometimes to a very large extent our subsequent paths in life are dictated by our family backgrounds... the types of families we were born into... while there are definitely cases of ppl who manage to succeed etc; how many unheard, unseen individuals are there, who work hard all their lives but still don't manage to overcome the 'natural' disadvantages they started with?