Is Anti Dowry Law(s) Anti-Male - IBN7 program (Agenda, एजेंडा: क्या दहेज विरोधी कानून पुरुष विरोधी हैं)

एजेंडा: क्या दहेज विरोधी कानून पुरुष विरोधी - Is Anti Dowry Law(s) Anti-Maleहैं

Ranjana's routine verbal diarrhea put back to where it belongs!, a note for future commandos to cherish and internalise:

Swarup Vs Ranjana KuRami: http://khabar.ibnlive.in.com/videos/37960

In this video the TOPIC/issue is whether anti-dowry laws are anti-men.
See how Centre for Social Research(CSR) head, Ms Ranjana Kumari diverts the topic to skirt from the logical conclusion that anti-dowry and other tools of legal terrorism and cause of misery for both Husbands and his kin(the whole husbands family get arrested without any kind of investigation or evidence/wirness, just on the false accusations of an unscrupulous wife; whole family, including at least 2 women(mother and sister), minors and senior citizens of the husbands family). 
Analysis of Ranjana's diverting tactics to discredit the issue that anti-dowry laws and such tools of legal terrorism are really anti-men and anti-kin of husbands(including 2 women on an average)

Ranjana herself claims that she is in the field of marital/women issues for the last 25 years or so, so theres no question that she is confusing IPC 498a(cruelty and harassment law) with IPC 304b(dowry death law). 
She consistantly diverts the issue(any issue) to dowry death since those statistics are shocking to the public and stands a chance to get instant sympathy of the viewers and stakeholders and thereafter any support for the issue at hand can be easily curbed with pressure tactics and road side quarell type of arguments!(Other issues: be it 498, or men's suicide due to family/legal terrorism issues, be it multiple maintenance, be it arrests of husband and kin without even evidence or witness, etc.) 
Ranjana Kumari is not a Kumari of confusion or lack of knowledge she is a kumari of deception of public, a kumari of vices, a kumari of neo-imperialists, a kumari of misandry, a kumari of hate!. And she is not the only kumariof this kind, we are infested with such kumaris, and our job is to expose them and vanquish them out of all societies including India, if they are not humanly salvageable. 
PS: Its another issue that statistics of IPC 304b(dowry death) is a hugely cooked up one, since any girl who unaturally dies after marriage is treated as a dowry death, by force due to pressure from these radical feminists, by the corrupt money-mongering police(for extorting money from husband and family) and some of them are initiated by the kin of the girls who want to wreck vengeance on the husband and kin due to long standing grudges and animosity(and since the girl is not alive to defend her husband, it becomes easy for these vested interests to convert all dead women into one dowry death statistic each!)

References :
1)http://at498a.blogspot.com/2008/08/unprovoked-suicides-dowry-deaths-in.html
2)http://at498a.blogspot.com/2008/07/false-allegations-of-dowry-expose.html
3) http://at498a.blogspot.com/2010/08/neo-imperialistic-powers-neo-ways-to.html
4) http://at498a.blogspot.com/2010/02/economic-terrorism-and-its-family.html
5) http://at498a.blogspot.com/2010/02/exposing-unfemun-false-statistics-of.html
and
6) http://stopivawa.aimraw.org/ - About the need to Stop International Violence against Women Act proposed to be unleashed on the world by the mecca of neo-imperialism: the USA

Neo-Imperialistic powers: Neo-ways to Divide & Rule

Issues like this(bias of law against (or for) a particular gender) are not about/based on natural animosity between male and female genders, nor do they help the supposedly protected gender(women in all the cases!).

Its an attempt by neo-imperialists to eye-wash the public using their natural soft-corners for a gender, the real intention is to use such mind games to get undeserving/un-natural power, to sustain the empire built in such way and to harness the power for more money, and hence more power and more resources to grow this empire built on self-centered and parasitic tactics, deceptions, mass mis-propaganda, hate-mongering and ruthless cannibalism.

Gender biased laws(and other such gender biased provisions) are made by vested interests to get the benefits they want(not to the intended women), by instigating an artificial/un-natural/cultivated animosity between the genders. Whereas if one tries to see all this from a higher perspective, it becomes very clear that these vested interests are employing a divide and rule policy and capture power through economic terrorism, using the two genders.

"Ardhanaareeshwara" is the truth and constitution(the body-mind complex) in everyone one us. This means every man is a mix of male and female characteristics. And that male and female genders are built to compliment each other, though built, seemingly, with a lot of conflicts and in-congruity compared to one another's constitution. 


The relevance of the "Ardhanareeshwara" concept in the present day society and how it played a critical role in making Indian families, and hence our culture itself, so robust and progressive, even so many centuries before, is outlined in this blog post by Mrs.Uma Challa.

If a living being is ever tried to be built with all male and female characteristics put together, such group of living beings will perish due to monotony, if not anything else!. 


No wonder evolution did not make all of us exact replicas of each other, in terms of constitution(hormones, anatomy, brain constitution, responses to stimuli, etc.)

All kind of Gender Biased provisions are with evil intents/agenda on the part of vested interests(a powerful super minority) who wants to plunder the vast majority of others, using, age-old but, highly effective principles like deception and divide & rule.

Say no to all gender biased provisions, save life and society as we know it. Say .... We demand Gender-neutral Laws

Cowardice asks...."Is it safe?", Expedience asks "Is it politic?", Vanity asks...."Is it popular?"... There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dare to admit that you like this idea?, ready to express your true feelings?....  Join this facebook group and declare your opinion ... that "We demand Gender-neutral Laws"




PS: 
Some gender-specific traits as examples, 1) male: brute force, testosterone induced fights against great odds- courage in face of big odds(even if the brain says that the challenge is much above his ability to conquer. Eg. Fighting with a Lion with only a stick, to protect his family), ability to control others by projected fear - intimidation (alpha male lions, once they vanquish the old leader keep the rest of the pack under control just by intimidation tactics), 2) female: Patience, Love, maintaining the household, etc.

Excerpts from the article "Gender Characteristics": 

 Characteristics of the masculine gender are: abstract thinking, activeness, ambition, conditional love, constancy, contemplation, courage, creativity, daring, dependability, discipline, force, independence, individuality, knowledge, leadership, originality, pioneering spirit, positivity, progressiveness, spirituality, stability, and will-power.

Characteristics of the feminine gender are: accommodation, adaptability, caring, companionship, consideration, cooperation, diplomacy, friendliness, gentility, giving, harmony, industriousness, informative, materialism, nurturing, receptivity, responsiveness, rhythm, visual thinking, and unconditional love.

Indian Media acknowledges the shortfalls of the Sexual Harrasment Bill

Original post here-> INSAAF: Indian Media acknowledges the shortfalls of the Sexual Harrasment Bill

Madhu Kishwar Blasts Sexual Harassment Bill on India NewsX:


Part-1



Part-2

With reference to the above videos, here is the issue with reference to what's wrong with Domestic Violence act(DVA act), which has a clause in the same lines "Sexual Harassment Panel is to be headed by a Woman, who is committed to the cause of Women"

At the first or even the second glance its doesn't look a bad clause, it even looks good since, as Ms.Madhu Kishwar too mentions, women will open up(about the sexual harassment she had to experience) better to a woman.

The real issue is that this Sexual harassment act will become a money making(extortion) racket as soon as it hits ground, and then the definition of "Woman who is committed to the cause of women" will be totally different, it will then mean "Woman who convicts most number of men, regardless of whether he is guilty or innocent. Here more men pressurised to pay compensation or through out-of-the-court settlement means more turnover to the new extortion industry spawned by Sexual Harassment Act.

This Sexual Harassment Bill, as soon as it becomes an Act, it will be like the multi-million industry(extortion) like in case of  the misuse of IPC 498a  or DV Act, where lawyers make money, women organisations make money through more cases/statistics and hence funds from UN and benefactors from the moist eyed/sympathetic western world(seeing false, cooked-up statistic of how many women are victimsed!) , police makes, money, unscrupulous law-misusing women/wives make money.

Making the Sexual Harassment Bill Gender Neutral, the real issue:


Thats exactly what the anti-family anti-India lobby would resist and oppose with tooth and nail.

This law is not at all aimed to protect women, just see how many harassed women get justice

One can just review the results with respect to other existing women-protection laws for assessing the reality and the clear trend of deception!, no victim gets justice, whatever be the gender!...

These laws are aimed only at making an industry of extortion around them, at the cost of wrecking the social structure and peace and hence national stability and security in India(as well as any other countries, including USA, where similar laws prevail(like the VAWA(Violence against Women Act) in USA)).

The powerful corporations which run and bleed nations are behind this, whether its a plan from scratch or not!(it need not be like the Illuminati theory goes).

The chaos and insecurity in people makes excellent ground for unplanned lives and hence expenditure in not-so-priority products and services(luxury, fad, high margin products and services).

Abused hubby gets divorce Son’s Custody - Mumbai Mirror

Abused hubby gets divorce Son’s Custody - Mumbai Mirror

Aarey Colony resident uses videos shot by secret cameras at his residence to prove his case

Deeptiman Tiwary

Posted On Saturday, August 07, 2010 at 02:13:02 AM

A man who was thrashed by his wife and had recorded the abuse using spy cameras to present it as evidence in his divorce proceedings has won the case and the legal custody of his 11-year-old son. Video grabs of Pallavi thrashing Purushottam Mahajan. Purushottam Mahajan, 44, who was locked in divorce and custody battle with his wife Pallavi for over two years, installed secret cameras at their Aarey Colony house to capture how she abused him physically in his son’s presence. In November 2009, the video was uploaded on YouTube by an NGO to show how law was heavily loaded against men in cases of marital discord. Eight months after the video went up, the Bandra Family Court last month handed over the custody of the child, Aum, to his father. The battered husband fought his case himself armed with the video evidence. He argued Aum’s future was more secure in his custody than his wife’s. The couple got married in 1999, but the relationship soured within a year. Purushottam alleges that there were regular fights and he would often get beaten up. While he would talk about the violence to his friends, no one believed him. Fed up of the violence and desperate to gather evidence, Purushottam, who claims to have worked with Subhash Ghai as an assistant director, installed a spy camera in his place. The camera captured everything that went on in the house, including Purushottam's physical torture, for three months. What eventually went up on YouTube was an edited 30-minute video. The video that has no sound, shows Pallavi slapping and kicking Purushottam. It later shows them animatedly discussing something even as a child looks on. On July 23, 2008, Pallavi left the couple's Aarey Colony house with Aum. Since the marriage had irrevocably broken, Purushottam filed for divorce and Aum's custody on July 27. On August 29, Pallavi lodged a complaint of dowry harassment and torture against him at Dindoshi police station. However, Purushottam's spy video recordings and other evidence he presented in the court tilted the divorce and custody case in his favour. During the two-year battle, Purushottam says he went through a lot. "I lost a job in a multi-national bank because cops would be constantly calling me. But I had decided, I would fight till the end as I loved Aum more than anything else. When I saw my lawyer was not arguing the case properly, I read law books and argued my case without a lawyer." Mahajan watching his son’s video Purushottam meticulously collected evidence to make his case stronger. He showed the court how his child had suffered severe weight loss after his mother took him away. "I presented medical evidence that also showed that he had injuries on his hands and legs and that he lived in unhygienic conditions. After he was separated from me, he wasn't sent to school for months," said Purushottam, who alleged in the court that he was not allowed to meet Aum on one pretext or the other even though the court had directed a meeting every fortnight. His wife's lawyer, Amol Sutrale, who played a crucial role in bringing the couple to the negotiating table, said, "We realised there was no need to drag the case unnecessarily. I advised Pallavi and Purushottam to settle the matter. Pallavi agreed to give Aum's custody to Purushottam. Thus the matter was settled with mutual consent. At least, the child will not have to suffer anymore."

Jail Bharo Agitation by SIF-Mumbai:in News

Times of India News <- Click here for the original article(quoted below too)

Women-centric laws protested
Members of the Indian Family Foundation conducted a peaceful ‘jail bharo’ dharna on Tuesday at Goregaon (W) to protest against the misuse of 498 A and the Domestic Violence Act, which the organisers termed as ‘wifecentric laws’. The event was supported by former Mr India, Aryan Vaid. Several women were also part of the protest and alleged that under the garb of being women-centric, these laws were being used to harass mothers-in-law and sistersin-law. The protesters were taken to a police station and later let off. The protesters said they want the government to set up a ‘Ministry for men’s welfare’. 


Article in Afternoon:

The memorandum submitted through Mumbai Police addressed to PM, President, CM of Mahasrashtra, etal.

A detailed post about this Jail Bharo event is here

Jail Bharo Agitation by SIF-Mumbai: Darr ke aage Jeet Hai

On July 6th 2010, Indian Family Foundation and Mashaal (Mumbai based NGOs in the Save Indian Family network) conducted a pioneering Jail Bharo andolan(Flood the Jail Agitation). Pictures here . 

This was preceeded by Mr.Ravindra Gangurde's indefnite Dharna against gender biased and anti-family laws which commenced on Febrary 22, 2010 and continued till date, after he took the dharna for 1 week to Jantar Mantar , Delhi.


In Hyderabad All India Men's Welfare Association and All India Forgotten Women's Association conducted a protest in front of police station and submitted a memorandum to the Commissioner of Police. Pictures here , Press Release , Press Release in Support to Mumbai Jail Bharo andolan & Flyers and Placards.    

In Bangalore National Family Harmony Society (NFHS) submitted a memorandum to the Commissioner of Police and issued a Press release.


Participating in this Jail Bharo agitation at Mumbai, Actor Aryan Vaid showed solidarity with SIF's cause and gave an empathetic speech. In the times to come more opinion leaders will shun their fear and false-ego and join this just cause for sure.

                            

Lets show Aaryan some solidarity right back, follow him on http://twitter.com/aaryanvaid , do inform him that you are from SIF, you can just reply to one of his tweets. He is on Facebook too, but can't send friend request("too many friend requests for this user" says FB) and hence can't comment on his wall too. But we can send him messages: http://www.facebook.com/aryanvaid?v=wall . His email is : aryanvaid0000 (at) yahoo (dot) com , send him appreciation for doing the right thing - Saving Family ... Saving Nation.

Next time all SIF local groups should do this in sync, its bound to make a huge impact.Iam sure SIF- Mumbai will soon come out with the detailed procedures and to-do list for others to emulate.

I couldn't help but borrow 'Mountain Dew's' Ad punchline "Darr ke aage Jeet Hai"  - yes its always victory behind your own fears, so lets conquer the fear, lets embrace fear and dissolve it, lets use fear to make people sit up and think and then act.

There's always a decision of Fight or Flight which one has to make, and you win only if u decide to dig your feet deep and fight to finish, so what do you want to do... do I hear FIGHT?

As this Mountain Dew ad says "Bidega toh Jeetega" ... "If you fight, u win".... life is that simple when you think of it!. 

So now there are two choices for all of us.... r u ready to fight .... or do you want to DIG YOUR FEET DEEP AND FIGHT TO FINISH

News in Times of India : Women-centric laws protested
News in "Afternoon" news paper and the Memorandum submitted through Mumbai police to PM, President, CM of Maharashtra, et al: "End the draconian Section 498(a) and Memo via Police"

Happy Fathers Day ,

Happy Fathers Day , 20th June, Sunday

Bending it like Shinde!

A Fraud Called
"Divorce on the grounds of Irretrievable Breakdown of Marriage"

People who have seen the news coverage on Cabinet approval of adding 'irretrievable breakdown of marriage' as a ground for divorce in Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 and Special Marriage Act, 1954 are a confused lot. What does it mean? When can a person file a petition for divorce on this ground? How can relief be sought? These are some of the questions I have been searching the answers for.

Legally speaking, “irretrievable breakdown of marriage” is defined as: “The situation that exists when either or both spouses are no longer able or willing to live with each other, thereby destroying their husband and wife relationship with no hope of resumption of spousal duties.”

In this direction, the Law Commission, in its Seventy First Report which was submitted in April, 1978, strongly recommended to introduce irretrievable breakdown of marriage as a ground for divorce. This was in addition to the already available grounds of divorce - ground of fault and mutual consent. The wisdom behind such an amendment, as contemplated was, when a party to the marriage is not at fault, falling in the subsection, nor staying together and further frustrating the other party's efforts to come to a mutual agreeable terms to end the marriage, a divorce on this ground can be sought. The said report recommended detailed guidelines by way of introduction of sections 13 (C), 13 (D), 13 (E) in the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 and necessary amendments in section 21 (A) and 23 as well. The idea behind the same was that once a divorce is sought on the grounds of irretrievable breakdown of marriage, other conditions like fault of one party be regarded as irrelevant. 

In 1981, a Bill was introduced to give effect to irretrievable breakdown of marriage as a ground for divorce, but the legislature in its wisdom did not accept the same, as it was apprehended that unscrupulous people, mainly husbands would desert their wives and take advantage of this provision. A point to be noted here is that section 13 (D) and 13 (E) as contemplated by Law Commission made it clear that a wife can oppose such a petition on the ground that it would result in financial hardship for her, and it made it binding on the court to see that adequate arrangement for welfare of children and wife be made while a decree of divorce be granted on this ground. Despite the same the legislature did not find fit to accept the report and the same was rejected.

The social fabric of India has undergone a lot of changes during the last Thirty Two years. And from time to time the courts have refused to grant divorce on this ground in the cases of Asha v. Krishna Lal (1990 Del.1), Smita Dilip Rane v. Dilip Dattaram Rane (AIR1990 Bom.84), Suresh Prasad Sharma v. Rambai Sharma [1 (1999) DMC311(MP)]. On the contrary, the apex court has dissolved the marriage on this ground in V. Bhagat v. D v. Bhagat (AIR1994 SC710),  Chandralekha Trivedi v. S.P. Trivedi [(1993) 4 SCC 232], Naveen Kohli v. Neelu Kohli [2006(3) SCALE 252]. The case of Naveen Kohli Vs Neelu Kohli is of great importance because by way of this Judgement, the Hon'ble Supreme Court had recommended an amendment in the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 stating that there can be a great number of cases, where the marriage is virtually dead but parties can not seek divorce on the ground of irretrievable breakdown of marriage as such a ground does not exist in Hindu Marriage Act.

As in the case of recommendation of Law Commission of 1978, this suggestion also fell on deaf ears and despite Law Commission again recommending the same in it's 217th report in March 2009, no progress took place until recently.

It all changed on Dec. 16, 2009, when Smriti Shinde, the daughter of indomitable Union Power Minister Sushil Kumat Shinde, challanged the existing grounds of divorce in Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 by way of Writ Petition. Brief facts leading to this writ are that she had filed a case along with her husband for dissolving their marriage by way of mutual consent in May 2007 and was granted divorce even when the husband never turned up before the trial court. The Bombay High Court set the same decree aside holding that non-appearance of the husband showed that his consent did not continue. The Supreme Court also held the same view and dismissed her appeal. A news report published in newspapers on the next day stated that another powerful political face Supriya Sule was also present at the time of filing this petition, which can be construed as the support of Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar in the same.

Cut to present, barely a year after the Government of India deciding against the recommendation of 217th report of Law Commission, the cabinet has given nod to the changes in provisions in Hindu Marriage Act, 1955. The way in which the same would be implemented is still not sure, but what Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni stated to the media about this law raises some questions, the verbatim quote as printed in media states, “This would provide safeguards to parties who file petitions for grant of divorce by mutual consent but who wilfully avoid coming to court thus causing harassment to the other party."

I am a layman, but I have gone through the Seventy First Report as well as Two Hundred and Seventeenth Report of Law Commission. Both reports don't find mention of such pre-condition as parties filing petition for grant of divorce by mutual consent but who wilfully avoid coming to court.

The statement coupled with other facts makes me question the very genuineness of such an amendment.

1. What was the hurry to implement the recommendation of making "Irretrievable Breakdown of Marriage" as ground of divorce, when the same government had not heeded to the same in recent past.

2. Is the government trying to play foul by playing with the recommendations of Law Commission and adding irrelevant conditions to it because such a condition fits in Smriti Shinde’s case?

3. If such irrelevant conditions are added, it would only benefit unscrupulous, powerful and mighty, who can obtain first consent by way of fraud or coercion. One should not forget that the legislature in its wisdom while adding section 13(B) in Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, made a provision that consent can be withdrawn after filing first motion. And for the same a statutory cool-off period of six months was given. If, such a pre-condition is added to irretrievable breakdown of marriage ground, it would defeat the section 13(B) of Hindu Marriage Act, 1955.

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Contributed by Shonee Kapoor

NATIONAL FATHERS DAY RALLY

NATIONAL FATHERS DAY RALLY

We the members of CRISP have organized a “NATIONAL FATHERS DAY RALLY” on 19th June 2010, to stop the creation of a fatherless society which coincides with fathers day which is celebrated throughout the world to recognize and to honor the fathers for everything they are doing for the children& express gratitude for their love, care and protection to their children.

Details of the function:
Time : 10:00 AM to 1.30 PM
Venue : Mahatma Gandhi Statue, MG Road, Bangalore.

CRISP is an NGO formed in 2008 at Bangalore by people who recognized the serious effects of Parental Alienation of children due to single parenting in divorce/separation. Now we have chapters throughout the country. CRISP speaks up for the Rights of Children to remain connected with and enjoy the love of both the natural parents being divorced or separated. Our aims and objectives are based on research findings. Our members come from all walks of life, like software engineers, doctors, teachers, businessmen, social workers, etc. which includes women and senior citizens. All family roles like grandparents, fathers, mothers, etc., are being represented. CRISP has charted a Pro-Family agenda to promote family harmony in our society.
Parental Alienation: Psychological Effects on the Child

Parental alienation occurs when one parent estranges the children from the other parent for personal vendetta. Children are brainwashed (used as pawns in divorce/ separation) by the dominant parent against the non-custodial parent (usually fathers). This brings a lot of mental distress & trauma to the child and the alienated parent and is particularly damaging to the child’s psychology and is Child Abuse. Extensive psychological studies over decades collectively called “The Spectrum of Parental Alienation Syndrome1” describe the detrimental effects on the child. In western countries, mainly U.S and Europe, organizations (including medical, judicial & NGOs) have gone into the depths of this and are trying hard to preserve families and save children. Unfortunately, our own country which once prided possessing “family values” now needs to learn basic lessons from the west. Its a well known fact that neglected children and children from broken families are more prone to take to crime. In India, NOT even a single such study/ research has been done. There is a serious need to commit to research and save children from this situation, which is completely being ignored. As a society, we are largely ignorant of the effects.

Indian legal system and society at large is still based on a patriarchal mindset which considers fathers incapable of nurturing children which is incorrect. Men are as capable as women to be caregivers and bring up children in a normal way. Even if the woman (mother) assumes that the man is not a good husband, it is out of place to say he is not also a good father for the children until there is strong evidence against the father. Thus, women (mothers) need to understand that her animosity for the husband & his family should be kept separate from the child’s need for his/her father and must share the children with their estranged husband in the best interest of their children. After all, the father if far better than strangers, servants, day-care and nannies!

Judicial & Governmental Apathy: Anti-Child, Anti-Father & Anti-Family

Divorce/ Separation is between spouses. Not child and parent. This is common sense. There is no law requiring a normal father to keep away from his child, in divorce/ separation proceedings. On the other hand, U.N’s Child Rights Convention (to which India also acceded about 20 years ago and then did nothing about) requires the state (of which the Judicial systems are a part) to ensure that
the child does not suffer separation! However, the way justice is administered, the child is separated from the father (mostly) for years! One has to “apply” for “visitation” that takes years to “grant” and even then for a paltry time. Innocent children suffer because parents are separating & fight for their egos! Our judicial mechanism has a deplorable understanding of child welfare based on biased and outdated social concepts. The father is a relegated to a mere “visitor”, eliminating involvement in the child’s life and just a “maintenance” paying ATM machine. It virtually condemns the child to an illegitimate. This is neither in the child’s nor the family’s interest and destroys the foundation for the future generation.

It’s a fact that even convicted criminals have better access to their children 2.That is the extent of judicial apathy towards children and good fathers in family courts!
Our Family Laws and Courts are not only functioning insensitively in an anti-child, anti-father and anti-family manner, but are also flouting U.N’s Child Rights Convention (CRC) and even the Constitution of India3. Child’s rights cannot be subordinated to anything!

The Indian judiciary would do well to educate itself, provide training to judges and inculcate good international practices in the family law systems. The judiciary must become more accountable, transparent, improve the quality of justice and urgently implement extensive judicial reforms in right earnest, if it wishes to be a credible and potent justice system.

Why is a Family institution needed in the first place? Family is the most fundamental building block of society. It builds healthy human beings and healthy society. When family system breaks, its leads to serious social consequences4 and surge in crime rates. A main contributor to teenage pregnancies is broken families. It’s well known that children from broken homes are more prone to crime.

In US, it has been found after extensive scientific research that children from broken families without a father are:

14 times more likely to commit rape
5 times more likely to commit suicide
20 times more likely to end up in prison
10 times more likely to take drugs
32 times more likely to run away from home
20 times more likely to have behavioral disorders
9 times more likely to drop out of school
9 times more likely to end up in a state operated institution

From here it’s a short step to even more serious anti-national crimes like terrorism. Social upheaval/ instability are heavily exploited by anti-nationals and terrorists.

For a country like India, the breaking of the family system will be catastrophic to social well being and economic growth. Even today, the government spends crores on internal security. People are spending years in courts instead of engaging productively.

CRISP’s Achievements

Extensively campaigned to implement SHARED PARENTING. Currently engaging with the government on this. In-fact, National Commission for Protection Of Child Rights (NCPCR), Government of India appreciated CRISP for educating the society and legal fraternity on the significance of Shared Parenting.



1.CRISP has created a national forum and made representations to the Chief Justice of India,
WCD Ministry and Law Commission to make Shared Parenting mandatory.

2.Over 2500 members strong and growing. Now CRISP has 7 chapters across the nation.

3.Mothers who have been deprived of child custody are also members of CRISP.

4.Some reputed women’s organizations are supporting CRISP’s efforts.

5.Engaging with leading medical professionals to provide quality counseling. This is to prevent
suicides of deprived and abused fathers like Syed Makhdoom who committed suicide and whose
child is now fatherless.

6.CRISP has conducted several workshops, seminars and press meets pertaining to children issues
and sensitized the society and successfully spread the message of shared parenting.

7.Many deprived parents have benefited from CRISP counseling and have successfully got orders
for weekends and 50% vacation custody of their children.

8.CRISP provides quality information through its website www.crisp-india.org. Thousands of victims
have made use of this information which is the first of its kind in the country.


CRISP’s Demands:

• Basic right of children to access both biological parents
• Implementation of UN’s Child Rights Convention and Hague’s Convention on Parental Child Abduction.
• Implement SHARED PARENTING / JOINT CUSTODY as a rule in separation and divorce cases.
• Setting up Special Guardian Courts in every major city
• Speedy and quality justice (within 3 months)
• Rational and Gender neutral Family Laws (including DV Act)
• Create a separate Child Welfare Ministry at the National Level and separate from WCD Ministry
• Laws against International Parental Child Abduction and Child Alienation
• Enroll organizations like NIMHANS to carry out research on Child Psychology of separated children. Laws to be framed based on scientific studies.
• Compulsory counseling to parent-litigants on Shared Parenting for child’s welfare.
• Ban child interviews of tender age children, who have not had adequate access with the noncustodial parent.
• Appoint psychologists/ child psychologists as mediators and to encourage shared parenting.
• Ban lawyers as mediators! They are suited for arbitration not mediation!
• Ban lawyers form Family Courts (implement the Family Court Act which discourages engaging lawyers).Encourage party in person after giving adequate counseling.
• Grant visitation rights to grand parents who want to have access to the grandchildren.
• Harsh Punishment for Child Abusers including non-compliance of court orders concerning child visitation.
• Punish people who misuse dowry & domestic violence act as a weapon to cut off the children from the father.
• Make the domestic violence act gender neutral and also to protect the child from domestic violence from even the mother.

We appeal & invite our media friends to kindly grace the occasion since media has a very important role in educating the society on this highly sensitive subject of children who constitute 40% of the population and not vote banks & ensure our children are saved from being fatherless since the divorce rates in the cities are escalating and in Bangalore alone there are over 15000 cases pending.

Speakers for the press conference are:
Kumar V Jahgirdar President CRISP
Anil Kumar President Save Indian Family (NGO)
Roshni Mathan Teacher and Woman’s Rights Activist
Jayanth T.K Legal Counselor

CRISP’s is supported by the following NGOs and organizations:
SAVE INDIAN FAMILY
SUMANGALI SEVA ASHRAMA
FAMILY HARMONY SOCIETY
PURE (Mysore)
AIMPF, AIDPF

SOURCE:
1. The American Bar Association initiated a 12 year study by Dr. Richard Gardner and subsequently
carried forward by many others.
2. Francis Cora lie Mullin vs. The Administrator, Union Territory of Delhi, (1981) 2 SCR 516
(Justice P.N Bhagwati) which struck down Rule 559A of the Punjab Prison’s manual and allowed
a detune to see his/her child twice a week.
3. 1978 AIR 597 MANEKA GANDHI vs. Union of India: Article 21 of the Constitution enshrines
the right to life and liberty which includes right to a dignified life, free from social stigma, freedom
of movement. Article 39(e) & (f) protects a child from abuse!
4. U.S Department of Justice, National Criminal Justice Reference Service
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pubalp2.htm#csus
http://www.ncjrs.gov/app/Search/Abstracts.aspx?id=206316

KUMAR V JAHGIRDAR
President CRISP
Childrens Rights Initiative For Shared Parenting (CRISP)
(Regd. NGO) www.crisp-india.org (email: kvjahgirdar@yahoo.com)
# 78, Osborne Road, (Near Lake Side Hospital), Bangalore - 42, India.
Helpline No: +91 80 25593848, Mobile No: +91 98452 64488.

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