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Woman kills son, self

My parents have been bugging me to get married for over 6 years now. They feel marriage is the ultimate thing in life. Without it, we all are doomed. I managed to "run away" from home to escape the mental torture. I personally feel, marriage can wait and it's not important. If being a man, I had to undergo so much, imagine a girl. I have seen a number of girls being married off by parents just to "wash away" their hands from the responsibility. They don't even bother to find out how the man will take care of their daughter, whether she will be happy. In fact, she is never asked. She just has to agree to the man they see!

Look at the consequences: A woman killed her one-year-old son by throwing him into the Bhadra river from a moving train, before killing herself by jumping into the river.

The girl (too young to be called a woman) Akshatha (21) of Sigehatti old town and her baby Darshan Pande. The train was moving from Bangalore to Shimoga. The seriously injured child was admitted to a private hospital, where he breathed his last. The cause for the extreme step were not yet known.

Now, who can be blamed for a 21 year old girl taking such an extreme step? It must have been a really horrible time for her to take such a drastic action. Still parents will not change, they hate to have girl children and when they have them, they want to get rid of them as soon as possible, even if it means marrying them off to criminals!

posted by Arun @ 6:10 AM