Woman Between Islam and Western Society
2. Woman in Society
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of wedlock, that the parents do not consider it
their responsibility to look after them.
In western countries, where the marriage bond
has weakened to a very great extent, and even
quite trifling differences can result in separation,
divorce has become common, and the resultant
broken homes have had the same disastrous
effects on children as illegitimacy. It is little
wonder that children, who are deprived of the
normal tender, loving care of a united family,
degenerate into animal-like creatures and
frequently develop criminal tendencies. One
glaring example is Charles Sobhraj, the
internationally notorious criminal. Sobhraj’s
Indian father and European mother did marry,
but separated soon after his birth, so that he
never knew what it was to live in a united home.
He was brought up independently without
receiving any proper education, and it is not,
therefore, surprising that he gradually developed
criminal tendencies. Later a life of the most
horrifying crime, he is now serving out a lengthy
sentence in an Indian jail.
