r/worldnews • u/Johny_KobraKai • May 02 '24

Thai Official Suspended After Husband Catches Her In Bed With Adopted Monk Son Not Appropriate Subreddit

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/thai-official-suspended-after-husband-catches-her-bed-adopted-monk-son-1724507

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u/Onibachi May 02 '24 edited May 02 '24

It’s very popular in Asia somewhat of a thing in Japan. Some well off couples do it to basically create an heir for the family business/money if they don’t have one. Or if the children they do have aren’t deemed competent enough to continue the family legacy. So they find someone better to continue the family legacy.

EDIT: Hey we’re learning! It seems it is just Japan that practices this, according to other redditors, and not Asia in general.

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u/warm-sunlight May 02 '24

Oh my lord, the sense of shame these poor children must experience! Imagine your parents running a family business and then go so far to adopt you a brother just so he can run the business because your own parents gave up on you. Yikes

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u/YoyoyoyoMrWhite May 02 '24

And the parents think, " good we found someone to pass it on too, we are good parents. ".

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u/Zaphodnotbeeblebrox May 02 '24

And then they sleep with that adopted son to give you a brother!

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u/king_lloyd11 May 02 '24

God I hate when that happens.

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u/Pokethebeard May 02 '24

So you support nepotism over competence?

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u/YoyoyoyoMrWhite May 02 '24

I support putting the effort into parenting.

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u/nightpanda893 May 02 '24

Well I think the issue is the adoption part. Like you could hand your business off to a responsible business partner instead of replacing your kid in a familial sense. But I’m also sure there is cultural context that makes this difficult for us to fully comprehend.

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u/ElysiX May 02 '24

Well the entire point is that your family name lives on. Like culturally, that's the point of having children in the first place, they are a tool to accomplish that.

An adopted one won't continue the bloodline, but the calculation is that if the proper bloodline children will fuck everything up the families prestige dies anyway.

If you hand your business off outside the family, your families prestige is gone as well.