Tragedy of a "Golden" Daughter

Pan’s parents, Huei Hann and Bich Ha Pan, arrived in Canada as political refugees from Vietnam, and Jennifer Pan, 28, fed her parents lies about her success and then hired hit men to kill them. (Court exhibit)

Under pressure of parents' requirement to study excellently, a daughter in the family, a Vietnamese family living in Canada, lied her parents for a long time about the study's performance from high school, university, and to getting a job. In fact, she didn't graduate from high school, and of course, she never went to a university.

When her parents discovered the fact, they prevented her from cell phone, laptop, and dating with her boyfriend. She became angry and plotted a plan to kill them.

Three hired hit men joined into the plan. They staged a murder by shooting her fatal mother and severely wounded her father in front of her witness. However, the police disclosed their guilty.

The story happened in January this year, and the Ontario court sentenced the daughter and her three hired hit men.

The story caused a storm on the Facebook in amount of immigrant Asian children living in America and Canada. They shared their childhood over the story and attributed their parents' high expectations to lead spoilage of fear. The expectations put burdens on Asian American children to cause long-term and chronic affects for bearings of failure. The accumulation of lies because of the girl felt changes to be impossible.

A lot of comments struck on the parents who have not cared of their child like people, and they have molded their child based on their expectations, rather than the child's expectations, and then they would dependently live through the child's life.

There are some other ideas. When the parents discovered the fact of the daughter's study courses, they should not go to extremes which immediately have pressed to a prevention against their daughter, maybe the story was not so tragic. On the other hand, if the daughter understood her parents' hardness and expectations, she should turn the failure into a lesson to recover, rather than to ruin her own life and parents.

In the case, the both sides went to extremes.

Chi Le

According to Washington Post