Woman Between Islam and Western Society
4. The Problems Facing Modern Civilization
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In a sense, the focus of parental life is likewise no
longer in the home, although for different reasons.
Formerly, the mother was always at home to look
after the children. But now, with both parents
working, the children meet them only in the
evenings when they are both already too tired to
give them their proper attention, or on weekends,
when they are generally too concerned with their
own recreations. The western child is deprived of
his mother because, like his father, she has gone to
her office, and he is deprived of his grandparents,
because they have conveniently been put away out
of sight in old people’s homes. It is such children
who become so emotionally unbalanced that they
see no further point in going on living.
SUICIDE OF A WOMAN SINGER
When the 18-year-old pop singer Yukiko Okada
jumped to her death from the roof of a high
building in April 1986, because of an unhappy love
affair, she ‘inspired’ many young people to follow
her example. A large number of young people
actually threw themselves off high rooftops because
they felt sorry for her and wanted to be in heaven
