Anita Anand | A wake-up call: Are families in India failing their children?
Deccan ChronicleWithin five months, the National Capital Region of Delhi has witnessed the brutal murder of two young women in the hands of the men they lived with. While Shraddha’s father knew about her relationship and was opposed to it, Nikki’s father claims he had no knowledge of his daughter’s relationship with Sahil, or their marriage. In both cases of the recent murders, the lives of the young men and women were quite different from their parents, and in sensing disapproval they kept the relationships hidden from their families. Young men, like young women, are raised in families where expectations are high -- to take over family businesses, marry appropriate women who produce children and carry on the family name, but above all, stay close and true to the family, and obey the elders.
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