Thanks for pointing that out, for English pronoun usage at the very least. My eyes blazed right past the blog heading that uses (as I suppose) the author's given name. I didn't see any other author information on the post or on the about page for the blog.
I read the domain ("count aleph") and associated "count" with male nobility -- when in reality, now that I look more carefully, it must instead be a very clever pun on math, which makes lots of sense given that she (the author) likes math puzzles.
Nobody mentioned family planning. The girl started to work because her mom became pregnant with her 6th (? I counted older brother and 3 younger siblings) child. Was this pregnancy planned? We will not know, but there is some possibility it was not. So, providing girl's parents with contraceptives and educating both mom and dad in their use would have had a real immediate impact on this girl's life.
There's been a huge effort from both NGO's and the government to promote birth control that has actually been quite effective. Birth rates have fallen sharply. [1]
I see adoption suggested often in response to any article describing fertility treatments. I would like the suggesters to elaborate on their experience with adoption process. From what I understand it is long, tricky, expensive and emotionally draining. More so than fertility treatments.
