How do you think you would react if you were in the position of these girls?

Some of the girls who are raised as bacha posh do not want to go back to living as women. How do you think you would react if you were in their position?

It is so hard to say how I would react. I cannot even imagine living under such restrictions. Once the girl has lived as a bacha posh, I don't see how she could easily give up the freedoms she once had as a boy.
To be able to walk outside, to play, to speak freely, get an education--how do you give it all up? And how do you not fight to get those rights for all other women? I don't think I could ever go back to the subjugation of being a woman.

I agree that I would find it very hard to go back. Some may not mind it so much if they have a strong desire to marry and have children.

I suspect I would feel the same way. Why would I want to be a woman when all my freedoms would be taken away? The bacha posh know firsthand the differences between the genders.

Since I have not grown up in the culture and war environment that these girls have I can not say how I would feel in their situation. But from the careful accounting of the situation in the book I am sure I would behave with respect for my family and a willingness to help. I would hope I would understand completely that my parents were trying to insure a better life for me as a bacha posh and that it would give me more confidence in my abilities as a woman once becoming an adult.

If I had a life as a bacha posh, I think it would be difficult to change back to dressing like a woman. I would not want to give up the freedom I had.

I think I would love being able to act like a boy - I was always a "tomboy". The transition back to womanhood later would be rough.

To me the answer is simple. I would NOT want to give up the lifestyle and liberties of being bacha posh.

I've never been a tomboy and wouldn't necessarily want to be one, but in these circumstances I can't imagine who wouldn't want the opportunity to have more freedom.