Divorce
Now-a-days divorce, a widespread social disease, is affecting our family life. But have we ever deliberated on what the possible factors and consequences are and what remedial measures we have to adopt to redeem our people from its gangrenous effect? Actually, it is high time we did so and any procrastination may deteriorate the situation hampering all possibilities of finding out a desired remedy. However we have to diagnose the ominous trend with a critical and analytical attitude. In doing that the most obvious factors that come out are conflict in personality, impact of satellite channels, extra marital relations and so on. In this case we have to remember that marriage is a holy bond that can never be defiled by noxious causes as mentioned above, it is a gateway to peace and prosperity, felicity and success and above all sound life through commitment, sympathy and co-operation. Whoever embarks on this new life should be committed to maintaining that marriage does not mean momentary pleasure only and it is not a child's plaything that is vulnerable to personal whims, nor a commercial enterprise that is contingent upon monetary gains; over and above it is a track of patience, prudence and sacrifice for mutual understanding. But in our society modern couples, driven by their impulsive decisions, never care about the bedrock of marriage and take it for something worthless. That is they are very often seen embroiling themselves in personal attacks against each other with reference to faithlessness, sense of superiority and inferiority, dowry, difference of opinions, maladjustment in ages and so on which lead them to hasten their separation. This is a typical picture of our society which indicates that we are trying to keep pace with the western traditions, hurling away the age old unity and sympathy without ever considering that a little bit of patience, prudence and sense of propriety can ward off the painful situation. But before that we have to participate in indirect action against the tendency.
Firstly, we should raise public awareness and the programme should be launched by social and religious leaders and intellectuals mainly for the young guys who are going to marry. Secondly, the media should broadcast such programmes for making the young generation comprehend what a bad practice it is and at the same time project the real worth of some so-called satellite movies and dramas redolent with baseless and misleading family conspiracy, conflict, separation and so on. Thirdly, dowry should be uprooted from our society at any cost
Finally, we have to remember that marriage has contributed a lot to the progress of mankind.
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