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Need to imbibe familial values at an early stage stressed

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All ears: Judge of AP High Court G. Raghuram addressing a seminar organised by the Save Indian Family Foundation in Visakhapatnam on on Sunday. —

VISAKHAPATNAM: Lack of role models and mentors in society is the main reason for degradation of the family system in India.

This was the opinion of Judge of Andhra Pradesh High Court G. Raghuram. He was here to deliver the inaugural address at a seminar on ‘Dynamics of family structure and role of law’ organised by the Save Indian Family Foundation on Sunday.

Mr. Justice Raghuram pointed out that the role of civil society should be more proactive and assertive. “The civil society, especially the legal fraternity, should act as good mentors and work constructively to restore the age-old family values, rather than be a catalyst for its degradation,” he said.

, Mr. Justice Raghuram pointed out that familial values should be sowed into the family system at an early stage, be it a joint family or a nuclear family.

Vice-Chancellor of Andhra Pradesh Law University Y. Satyanarayana said that both wife and husband in a family have to sail together. “If the husband is the edifice, the wife is the central pillar of the family,” he said.

Principal District and Sessions Judge N.R.L. Nageshwar Rao said that family laws were being forced upon people without being researched properly.

“All laws have two fold effects: they act as protectors and are abused as well. Social aspects should be given more importance for the survival of the institution of marriage,” he said.

Director of Centre for Policy Studies A. Prasanna Kumar pointed out that the Indian society was still strong due to the existence of the family system. “In our society, the girl is still believed to be married into a family, and thus she has a greater role to play.

To arrest the downtrend, the society needs to be proactive and not reactive,” he said. The former Chairman of Bar Council of India, D.V. Subba Rao, who presided over the seminar also voiced a similar view.

Earlier, coordinator of SIFF (Vizag chapter) B.K. Agarwal said that matrimonial disputes and divorces were set to rise in the coming months with the onset of global recession. Chairman of SIFF, Bangalore, Anil Kumar, gave a power point presentation highlighting the growing rate of suicides among men due to matrimonial disputes.

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