nurtured. Haven’t we heard the line “I am not asking you, I am asking my son! This tells it all, do we need to know more? Boys will learn to respect girls if they see it done at home. The way we respect our mothers, our wives, and daughters and daughter in law too, will show our young growing boys the way to respect the girls in their company and society at large. When a father storms out of the house if “the fish curry” is not to his liking and comes back in the evening all worked up and angry, it will not do the woman of the house any good but she will fall in the esteem of her children to the detriment of the family. If the daughters are taught to be “Pom Pom girls” with no interior values, no moral compass, no strength of character, they will never be able to be enlightened mothers or carers capable of bringing up responsible children.
So what is the bottom line? Treat every woman with respect. Teach every woman that she should be loved and respected and not objectified and abused. The future of our world lies in the way we treat our women. No race can be really strong and progressive whose women are abused, subdued and exploited. For it is she, who will bring up, nurture and educate, the men and women of tomorrow. A Roman Catholic Cardinal once said: “Give us the children until they are seven years old, and you can keep them the rest of their lives.” The Cardinal only emphasised that much is learnt in the formative years of children from their mothers, for the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. Valentine is the president of the ADMA in the Salesian province of Panjim
The way the women are treated in society is largely the way society looks at them. If as young girls, daughters are dressed up in noodle straps and short revealing dresses, they will do the same as young women much to the delight of every lecherous man.
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