Women and Family: social value.
Srila Prabhupada: “We were student of economics and there was a book, Marshall’s Economics. That Mr. Marshall is explaining that economic impetus begins from family affection, family affection. Unless one has got family, he will not try to earn. He will not try to earn money. He will be irresponsible. Therefore it is essential. When one is given some responsible post… Some… I know some English firm in India, I had some connection with him. So he was simply trying to know, “The man who is going to work for us, whether he is family man?” Because unless he is a family man, he has no attraction. He can give up the job at any moment. Because there is no family attraction. This is the psychology. Therefore according to Vedic civilization, it is the duty of the parents to get the sons and daughters married so that they will have family attraction, they will be established, they will be organized, things will go nicely. If there is no family attraction, no responsibility, then the things will not go nicely. This is the basic principle.
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Thank you very much for this valuable post and link. This topic is so important to our society — and to the greater society in general. Those of us who joined the movement in the 1970s will remember that our temples were more or less a sea of saffron. Brahmacari life is certainly most important for the development of good character in boys and men, but I’m afraid that we sometimes took it too far at the expense of the women and children who were deemed as unimportant and even worse. It’s nice to see some balance being restored. I’m looking forward to reading more articles on this subject.