"But I do tell my mother there are other things she can do, " says London, who's studied the brain and aging.
My mother never forced me to do this job but she told me that there was no other work and if we didn't do it the family would starve.
It is the basic inequity that retirees living in the USA, for instance - about 30 minutes as the crow flies from where my mother lives in Ontario - do receive the cost of living adjustments.
One winter day, a pipe burst in our basement, and my mother had no idea what to do, so I called my father and figured out how to fix it.
"I didn't know it would be this hard I thought everything would come naturally, and I would just instinctively fall into my role as a mother and know what to do, " a client lamented.
One of my godmothers said to my mother, 'You've got to do something about this child.
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When I brought her home from her mother's, I abandoned the rules I had set and let her do whatever she wanted, in fact my mother and grandmother visited the next day and she forgot that she was supposed to get dressed before receiving visitors.
My mother literally got on her knees, begging him not to do it.
My mother is a huge inspiration to me but sadly, many African women do not have the opportunities that she has.
"After losing my son, I wanted to do something to help other people, to help another mother not have to suffer the way I do every day from the loss of a child drowning, " she said.
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