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International Women's Day : A celebration of the mystery called ‘woman’

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“The origin of a child is a mother, a woman… She shows a man what loving, caring and sharing is all about..” said Sushmita Sen, India’s first Miss Universe, in the final round of the contest. An answer which was greeted with tremendous applause and which probably, led her to win the crown.

Indeed a woman’s essence lies in her innate ability to care, love and sacrifice for the other. She plays an all-enveloping character of a mother, daughter, wife and sister as a friend, nurturer, guide and partner from time to time. Emotional and vulnerable, sometimes erratic, sometimes serene, she displays a wonderful range of emotions from being patient to being extremely courageous in times of crisis.

Tormented and subjugated throughout all times and ages, women have fought their way through exploitation, harassment, and have managed to secure their rights in the public domain. In spite of continuing exploitation and injustice against women both in the domestic and work sector today, several milestones have been achieved in terms of education, freedom of choice and liberty, equality etc.With growing literacy and financial independence women feel more empowered today to assert their right to a life of dignity and self worth. The International Women's Day celebrated on 8th March is a universal day for all women around the world. It endows them with a sense of honour, dignity and self respect for being the person that they are. This day marks a celebration of the economic, social, cultural and political achievements made by women over the years.

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Dedicated to all Girl Children and Women on Women' s Day March 8 2011 FROM THE CRADLE TO HANDLING THE LADLE. While going through the odyssey of life, we often come across instances of what we would call 'cradle snatching'. Child marriage is one such example - where we find, when a child is hardly out of its cradle and is just taking its first steps in life, the little toddler will be booked on the list of brides awaiting the day of glory when she would be betrothed to the man of her life, who will most probably be another tiny toddler. This kind of child marriage can only be termed as 'Cradle Snatching'. Where the little ones are deprived of all the freedom and joy that childhood and youth bring along with it. 'Cradle Snatching' takes on another course, where a child could have reached the age of physical maturity, but will be staggering far behind mentally, wherein there will not be a well balanced physical and mental development, thereby giving the appearance of physical maturity and mental immaturity. At this stage especially in the life of a girl child, when she is not fully prepared mentally, though physically matured, her marriage takes place. This kind of marriage is therefore considered to be a case of ' from the Cradle to Handling the Ladle' Here a girl is physically prepared to meet the responsibilities of married life, but mentally she is still a child, unable to understand the responsibilities that she has been called upon to shoulder. Hence this kind of marriage, where the girl is not fully aware of what is happening or what her future is going to be like can only be termed as a deceitful marriage. The outcome of such a marriage spells DISASTER. Thirdly, there is the generation gap marriage, which could also be termed as 'from the Cradle to Handling the Ladle' type of marriage. In such cases, the man will be much older than the girl. Very seldom, do we hear of such a case being a success. In such a case, most probably the woman in question must be matured enough mentally, as much as physically, to know and understand what is happening and she must be fully aware of the differences in age while taking this decision, in such cases usually one does not find regrets, nor disaster. Now let us take a couple, as said earlier, the girl is physically matured but mentally is lagging far behind or putting in another way, let us say, she is innocent, and on the other hand the man is a well matured person both physically and mentally and he is well aware of the fact that his bride to be, though physically matured and prepared for marriage, is but a child mentally, and the age gap that lies between them can only be bridged by a 100' bridge, will not the question arise, as to 'how does he accept such a child as his marriage partner.?' There are cases such as this one selfish and low down act, which should be condemned by society, thereby preventing many suicidal deaths, broken marriages, motherless children and on the whole spoiling the entire life of a young woman. All these and much more disasters could be avoided if men rather chose life partners with a maximum age difference of 5 to 6 years their juniors, rather than spoiling the lives of young girls taking them as life partners in their teens, without having their full consent, thereby denying them of their teenage years and all the sweet memories that come along with it. Is this not an unjust act of depriving a young girl of her youth, just to cater to the needs of selfish men, who after making the best out of his youth, prepares to settle down in the prime of his life and at this stage instead of taking a partner who is equally matured as himself, takes a girl in her teens, without having made matters clear to her as to the responsibilities that lie ahead of her, but just to satisfy his ends, without thinking twice about the future of the woman in question, as to hw her life will be when she reaches the prime of her life and he will be re-entering the cradle for the second time. Do men have to think only about themselves all the time?? Will this kind f marriage ever end up as 'happily ever after' or will it end up in 'great disaster'. Here is a bit of advice to both sexes before trying to attract each other's attention . 1. What could be his / her age ? One could surmise within oneself and the nearest to that guess could be taken. 2. If the man understands from his guess that her age could be a vast difference from his - he should think twice, before making his first move. For human tendencies are such, he may get a positive response, which would in the long run, prove disastrous. So it's better he thinks twice before making his first move and trying to spoil the life of a young girl. 3. If on the other hand, the girl happens to make the first move, then it is up to the man to think twice again before giving her any response, knowing the generation gap that lies between them, or he should be prepared to give her a bit of advice on the move she is making, seeing that there is a wide gap between their ages. Thereby giving her an opportunity to realize the move she is making and let her think twice before reckoning for an unwarranted disaster, which may not be immediately, but sure later in life. 4. He should make sure that she is more matured in mind than body, to accept what she is going in for and make sure that what is happening is with her full knowledge and consent, so there will be no regrets later. 5. Young girls on their other hand should be more aware of the disaster that could follow them for the rest of their lives, all because of one wrong step taken at the beginning. Parents and elders in the families should try to make young girls see reason as to the obstacles they are placing before them for their future life when the fall for or accept the SWEET NOTHINGS whispered to them by men who ought to be their fathers rather than their husbands. By Mrs Joyce 4B Adithi 2 Mount Poonamallee Road Porur - Chennai 600116
by Mrs Joyce R on Mar 2, 2011 7:36 PM IST	Report Abuse

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