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Marianne Haslev Skånland:
The iron hand that rocks the cradle
The Hindu, 30 January 2012



There is a misprint in the article, and it is due to a mistake on my part in my original manuscript sent to The Hindu, and not the fault of the Chennai newspaper:

It says, about the middle of the article, that the sum of NOK 430,000 (the yearly pay for taking a foster child which was announced in an advertisement to tempt more people to become foster parents), equals €30,000. It should have been €50,000 (a Euro being the equivalent of a little over NOK 8).

Of course I regretted not having read proof properly, as I should have. However, maybe it was just as well that I did not discover this mistake? €30,000 is certainly bad enough, even given the high cost of living in Norway. If it had said €50,000, every sane person in India might have thought it could not possibly be true and suspected me of being entirely off my rocker and of lying throughout.
Marianne Haslev Skånland

  

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