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Archive for October 18, 2008

India: The deconstruction of the family structure

U.S. must stop exporting weapons of family destruction

By Uma Challa
web posted January 29, 2007

Pearl S. Buck once wrote, “The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due…to their isolation from the larger family unit…no mere father and mother…are enough to provide emotional security for a child.  He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond…”

The much envied Indian family structure is, in fact, based on mutual tolerance and coexistence of persons belonging to different generations, and provides safety and security to individuals at all stages of life. The larger family also acts as a buffer to mitigate everyday stress and helps minimize conflicts between inexperienced married couples. This stable and time-tested cultural institution has suffered the most serious assaults due to the export of family-breaking ideologies originating in the Western world. Understanding and tolerance to build harmonious marital relationships, are now being projected as a form of slavery. To make things worse, senseless U.S. anti- family laws, which have literally destroyed trust between American men and women, are now being thrust on India, without any heed to cultural relevance, social consensus, or the presence of a suitable law enforcement system for their proper implementation….(Full Story)

Probation in husband’s shooting

The Courier News

Wife gets 48 months’ probation in husband’s shooting

October 17, 2008
By DAVID GIALANELLA Staff Writer

ST. CHARLES TOWNSHIP — A Huntley woman who authorities said shot her husband after a day of drunken arguments pleaded guilty Thursday to a felony charge in connection with the January 2007 incident.

Virginia Choromanski, 67, of 12700 block of Woodgrove Drive, agreed with prosecutors to a 48-month probation term in exchange for pleading guilty to one count of aggravated domestic battery….(Full Story)

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