Litigants in divorce cases go through depressions lasting decades as they fight it out in the glacially slow Indian judiciary system. The women in divorce cases are far better than men because their viciousness is rewarded by the Indian judiciary.
OVER 50 per cent of all marriages are breaking in all the metros and if this number is extrapolated and adjusted with population growth we are looking at over 500 million divorcees by the year 2050. Litigants in divorce cases go through depressions lasting decades as they fight it out in the glacially slow Indian judiciary system. The women in divorce cases are far better than men because their viciousness and unscrupulousness is rewarded by the Indian judiciary. The less said about the condition of men the better. They are considered expendable by judiciary. The condition of men in India is much more deplorable than women. Although they contribute more than 80 per cent of the nation's taxes, their tax money is channeled by the government to make laws that are so horribly biased and one sided that over 120000 men have committed suicide than knocking the doors of justice. The number of men committing suicide are twice the number of women each year and even then the government does not allocate any money for welfare schemes of men . Now, if we extrapolate the problems stated above and apply them to 500 million people we can see ourselves the kind of devastation we are looking at 50 years from now.
The west is already embracing change in marital laws, why not India ?
The United States and Australia are already moving towards gender biased laws and very strong perjury laws, which make it a deterrent for any body misusing marital laws. Shelters for men harassed of domestic violence are being created, also shelters for women are accommodating men harassed by their wives or female partners. The divorce process in the west is also straightforward and quick so that two people who do not want to live with each other are not forced by the judiciary to spend their whole youth running in courts seeking justice like India. Budges are being allocated for men's health issues and to eradicate problems that men face emotionally and physically during a marriage are also being studied .
Change is long due, women and men are equal so why are the laws biased ?
Laws in India are twice as old as the country itself and marital laws are no different. Gone are the days where women used to be oppressed. Women today are no way less in any way as compared to men. They get the free education opportunities while men have to pay much more for their education, they pay less taxes for the same income earned. The government of India fund 100's of crore into women’s welfare schemes in India every year while men’s schemes are more or less non-existent.
Burning questions that need to be answered
Why do we see highly educated women incapacitate themselves immediately after a divorce and file for alimony and maintenance and the biased judiciary awards it irrespective of the capability and earning potential of the woman?
Why are men assumed to be oppressors in the judiciary and media all the time, while women are always assumed to be the victims?
Why is it that even in the 21st century we look at men as oppressors and capable of committing on bad tasks and women as the oppressed and always victims?
Why do we not have gender biased laws so that justice is delivered always irrespective of gender?
These are questions that the whole of India is asking you and the government of India. The people of India are eagerly waiting for these answers from the government .
Proposed solution / recommendation
1) Create a ministry for family welfare that will study the cause of rising divorces and will act towards arresting this trend.
2) Families staying united must be rewarded by tax incentives or other welfare channels so that people can again see the benefit of joint families or at least nuclear families with husband and wife. Divorcees must be given these benefits.
3) Family harmony must be taught in schools, boys and girls must be taught the importance of family harmony right from childhood through various different ways, so that they can grow up to become family men and family women and not divorcees.
4) Laws must be made gender neutral so that vicious behaviour of women is not rewarded like it is done today. The actual culprit must be punished irrespective of gender.
5) The litigation time for marital cases must be brought down to less than a year, so that people do not have to live in depression and fight cases for decades on end and still get no justice like the current scenario .
Parting thoughts
The preservation of the Indian family system is of paramount importance in Indians' future in the world stage and if nothing is done to stem the skyrocketing rate of the breaking families we will soon be on a slope of no return and it will have disastrous consequences for India as a whole .