Family pressure can abandon a child’s principled fight when it threatens career prospects

Evidence

Yasmin expected opposition from the school, but then her family started to turn against her. Her father sent an angry letter to the school, threatening legal action if they didn’t alter their policies, but at home he was telling Yasmin to forget it. It was jeopardizing her medical-school future. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 401

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the tension in A Very Minor Prophet about personal conviction versus pragmatic self-interest, and the immigrant-betrayal motif that runs through Bayoumi’s whole book. — connects to: Financial dependence can force parents to override their children’s wishes — Dolores DeLuce, Blow Jobs: A Guide to Making It in Show…, 241