Try for
Work for
Work for verb - To be a servant for.
Both terms in one sentence
- Indian and Chinese parents who decide in favour of the abortion of female fetuses, and try for a boy, believing that they will, in twenty years or so, be the ones who get to be paid money for their son's hand in marriage, and obtain a daughter in law who will work for them.
Source: Original Position Fallacy
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