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212. Why the British pay a higher price in old age for family relations? P S Remesh Chandran

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Why the British pay a higher price in old age for family relations?

P. S. Remesh Chandran

Editor, Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum

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Everyone knows that the British are great admirers of dogs. Most of them extend their love to their dogs which they deny to their children. Dogs are let to lie with them in their rooms, often in their beds. Their toddlers are left to lie and sleep alone in a separate room- mostly in the family nursery room in crèche, even before they are even one year old. This is what affected their present day social structure- children leaving parents in their old age, abandoning them in old age homes. In India it rarely happens, and in countries like China, Tibet, Japan, Indonesia and Ceylon also. That is the price the British dog lovers pay in their old age for substituting dogs for children. One can say and argue that their children grow up more independently than the children in the Asian countries mentioned and more early too, but within that time the ardence between the parents and their children- the very cementing bond of human relations in man's society- is irredeemably lost. It is not unemotional haughty brutes that we need to build our society but ardent affectionate young men who respect and take care of their elders. An average British man now finds himself marooned in an island of hostility in his old age because he once had no love left to be shared with his sons and daughters after pouring all what he had as parental love on his dogs. The British who ruled India for a very long time were startled at the common sight of children- young and old alike- sleeping in parents’ rooms without leaving any privacy for anyone, but they did not understand that it was the bond which very early cemented and held together parent-child relations in India and other Asian countries and prompted them to never part from each other at any age.

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Editor of Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum. Author of several books in English and in Malayalam. And also author of Swan: The Intelligent Picture Book. Born and brought up in the beautiful village of Nanniyode in the Sahya Mountain Valley in Trivandrum, in Kerala. Father British Council trained English teacher and Mother University educated. Matriculation with distinction and Pre Degree Studies in Science with National Merit Scholarship. Discontinued Diploma studies in Electronics and entered politics. Unmarried and single.