She should not be considered a burden to be carried or an added responsibility but one of the set of wheels required to move the cart of life smoothly. Ironical in the land where there are maximum number of goddesses she is burnt and killed for dowry, sometimes raped and molested even as a child, beaten when pregnant and when she willingly or unwillingly throws herself on the pyre of her husband she is idolized and becomes a Sati. Before she even realizes she becomes a production machines for the cherished male heir to the lineage and god forbid, if she produces only girls or no children at all then she becomes a ridicule of the family and a burden to the society she is ostracized and ignored for all important functions . Earlier I never understood what he meant, but now with time and experience I know. Petty squabbles, jealousies over trifle irrelevant matters fuels their dislike for each other and does not allow them to live together in peace under the same roof.
Divorces are certainly on the rise in the country.
And the conduct of many a women seen and read, from the glaring pages of the media or the TV screen is really appalling and outrageous. It's deplorable, the fact that the women's body has been made an absolute object of commercialism. But we have nobody but ourselves to blame. Certainly we are a party to it too. I swear there has to be a total bankruptcy of ideas.