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DISCOURSE 36
boys and girls are married at an earlier age but probably this is not happening in our Jain society.
In the so called modern families, with their new-fangled notions, girls are not married upto the age of twenty-five years or even more. They are married at the age of twenty-five years or so and boys are married at the age of twenty-eight or more. These youngsters might have experienced sex before marriage. They may take recourse to various methods such as homosexuality etc. to gratify their sex-impulse. In colleges, there is the system of co-education. In youth, the contacts between boys and girls cannot easily remain within the limits of mere friendship. They become infatuated with passion and ultimately, it may end in physical contacts.
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Women are being given the same education as men. In the life of a woman some 5 to 8 years get wasted in her getting education which is not useful to her. Education is only a pretext; and the girls leave colleges securing degrees. Then they begin looking for jobs. Do you know what low kinds of jobs girls are prepared to do now-a-days to earn money? Some secure such jobs that they cannot even be mentioned among decent people. Some women have fallen into the pit of moral degradation.
To-day, people do not think of marrying to safeguard their character; they think of marriage as a means of securing comforts and conveniences, even luxuries. Girls want to marry with a view to getting freedom freedom for what? They want freedom to ramble about with men even after marriage; to sit for hours in solitude; to go to clubs and eat food in restaurants with other men.
UNDER THE NAME OF FREEDOM; SOME WOMEN PERFORM THE HOLI OF THEIR CHASTITY
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Man also has been taking such liberties. He too has been rambling about with other women. Yet man and woman, that is, husband and wife have begun to blame each other. They keep quarrelling. Under the attractive name of "Women's freedom"
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