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Posted: 13 years ago

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Originally posted by: Ankur_1305

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One of the main reasons for such deep-rooted social and personal ills is the ignorance and blind faith that results from lack of education.

In case of child abuse, I think the mother and the father, in that order, have the greatest role to play.

A girl who is 6 year old has no reason to lie to the mother about some 55 year old highly respected man touching her inappropriately. So if she tells her mother once, how the hell the abuse can go on for a decade without the mother and father even having a faintest of ideas, never mind the fact that the abused child never told them??

absolutely education will help...and the parents (in the case that they are not the abusers) should be the first educators...unfortunately because of so many generations of simply ignoring this evil...a wall has been created and if your own child can't break it...then you can understand how deep the problem is...in the case of Harish (not sure if i spelled it right)...where he told his mother 2x and she didn't do anything about it...i kept thinking what would make a mother turn a blind eye to such a thing?...and then i looked at her and saw that it was hard for her to even cry when her son was telling the story on stage...so i thought to myself...how much trauma is she herself bottling up?...its generations of abuse that we are talking about...so it will take a new generation to change the equation i think...

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Posted: 13 years ago

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Both the issues that Aamir raised are related to crimes that are committed in the confines of homes. We have no one to blame but ourselves for killing unborn children or abusing the young ones.

True there are weak or no legal safeguards in both the cases, but do we need a law to curb the grandmother who kicks her newborn grandchild down two floors? And what kind of education or enlightenment can help such depraved mentality?

The only thing that can work in my mind is complete social boycott and ostracism. The moment you get to know that someone is guilty of such an act stop interacting with that person socially. The guilty are protected by the social silence, they can be punished by social silence too. We need to turn the system on its head and make the society work for the victim instead of against him/her.

Our society has the tendency to blame the victims - you were teased by goons, surely you must've worn provocative clothes, someone followed you home, surely you encouraged them, who doesn't want a son, the child has no idea what he/she is saying. We tend to negate the reports of the victim and our first instinct is to defend the guilty.

What the show is doing and what the anecdote are saying is the same thing to my mind - question the statuts quo.

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