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Amit Shah 1.0 Is Defining Modi 2.0 Voice of South Asian Community Since March 2002 Page 5 Vol. 16 Issue 31 Friday 27 December to 3 January 2019 $ 1 www.thesouthasianinsider.com The US' retreat and China's rise has changed the world in this decade Story on Page 18 & 19 The decade was marked by the US retreat from its traditional commitments; the rise of economic protectionism, nationalism, illiberalism; and the emergence of China as the other pole in the global order Friday 27 December to 3 January 2019 ADVERTISEMENT 2 Friday 27 December to 3 January 2019 ADVERTISEMENT 3 Friday 27 December to 3 January 2019 EDITORIAL 4 We're dying sooner instead of Hatred will have costs for living longer - Here's why India's diversity and security Children enacting plays and be despised is acquiring a large At the close of Democratic in 46 percent of two-parent homes recalling significant national events is an footprint in many educational presidential candidates' debate last week, both parents are working full-time - up endearing activity, and December is a institutions across India that have an Andrew Yang highlighted a very real 50 percent over the past 50 years, special month given that it is the end of empathy and affinity with the Hindutva problem: "Our country is falling apart …. according to Pew. the calendar year, and whether one ideology. In recent years, an insidious Our kids are addicted to smartphones or The liberal elites would have us believe subscribes to Santa Claus or not, the linkage has found traction wherein the drugs. We are seeing record high levels that this is not a significant development. holiday ambience is contagious. Muslim citizen is framed as a potential of depression, suicide and overdoses. Our In order to be among the "enlightened," However, in an unsavoury but not terrorist or a sympathiser of jihad. corporations are recording record profits political correctness requires pretending surprising development, on December This was repeated on December 22 at while our people are literally dying there is no benefit to children being 15, a school in Karnataka had children Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rally younger." Yang's comment about the raised in a home with their mother and enact the demolition of the Babri Masjid. in the capital, where young people tragedy of people dying younger referred father. A recent survey showed that over A video clip of the "demolition" that was were seen chanting slogans that to the statistic released recently showing 70 percent of Americans believe that widely circulated on social media noted dripped with this derision for the other, that for the first time in 100 years (since living with a single parent is just as good that the footage was taken at the Sri among them, "Desh ke gaddaron ko, World War I), the average lifespan of as living with two parents. The truth is Rama Vidyakendra High School in goli maaro saalon ko (Kill these Americans is getting shorter. Yang is quite the opposite. According to Kalladka in south Karnataka and that the national traitors - with an expletive correct to call attention to this sad Princeton University's Fragile Families school is owned by Rashtriya added)". There have been other visuals, statistic. The decline is stunning, and Child Wellbeing Study, children Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader, particularly from rallies held to support considering major medical breakthroughs in raised in a "fragile family" (where parents Prabhakar Bhat. Union minister the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, recent decades, improvements in safety, were cohabiting or where there was a Sadananda Gowda and the Lt Governor which show young people chanting improved knowledge regarding health and lone parent), were twice as likely to drop of Puduchery, Kiran Bedi, also reportedly slogans such as, "Aatankwad ki kya nutrition, and our booming economy. But out of high school. attended this event, though the minister pehchan? Mulla Masjid Pakistan (What an important question facing us today is Even children in stable single- was said to have reached the venue after is the identity-marker of a terrorist? whether the progressive policies parent households were likely to not the Babri demolition episode ended. Maulvi-mosque-Pakistan)". embraced by Yang and other Democrats perform as well as children of a married Be that as it may, local media reports The total disregard for the spirit of the are what we need to fix this, or whether couple. The study naturally concludes that indicate that the two schools run by this Constitution and the tolerance for they have actually contributed to the having two adults providing time and money RSS leader have inculcated an ideology diversity of all hues that India problem.The reason for the decline in the to raise a child means more resources for of hatred against the Muslim-Christian espouses is self-evident, and the average lifespan is not in dispute. Multiple the child. Single-mother families are more faiths among their students, and that nature of the transgression is the studies, including from the National Center than five times as likely to experience poverty while this is against the provisions of the same whether in south Karnataka for Health Statistics, show that the decline as married-parent families. Children are constitution, the institution continues to or the national capital. is a result of so-called "deaths of despair." also safer in married-parent families and receive State patronage. This pattern, as While this recourse to divisive "Deaths of despair" include significant have a lower risk of being exposed to noted, is not unsurprising in states where politics by the BJP is often justified increases in drug overdoses, liver disease domestic violence. This is because Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as deft electoral strategy - the related to alcohol abuse and obesity, and married women are less likely to governments are in office - and cynical stoking of religious suicides. Related to this are significant experience physical abuse than single Karnataka is no exception. Police have animosity to garner the majority's increases in homelessness, mental health or cohabiting women, and less likely to arrested three members of the governing support and advance the ideology problems and gun violence. suffer abuse and neglect. "On average, body of the school, but it remains to be of exclusionary Hindutva (as opposed Why are we seeing such increases? no other relationship delivers the kind of seen if there will be any deterrent action. to inclusive Hinduism) - the I believe there is a unifying theory that may stability kids need like marriage does," This inculcation of casting the Muslim implications for national security are explain it all: The breakdown of the nuclear Bradford Wilcox explains in a study titled faith and its adherents as the "other" to corrosive. family. This breakdown coincides with the The Future of Children. According to the increase in the problems listed above. The Princeton report, "most scholars now American Academy of Pediatricians agree that children raised by two recently pointed out: "The American family biological parents in a stable marriage is a rapidly changing institution. You may do better than children in other family have grown up in the stereotypical forms across a wide range of outcomes." American family - two parents and one or The American Academy of ISSN No. 1554 06X more children, with a father who worked Pediatricians said in its 2016 report: "Fathers outside the home and a mother who do not parent like mothers, nor are they a Editor in Chief & Publisher : Sharanjit Singh Thind stayed home and cared for the children replacement for mothers when they are not Editor (Political Affairs-India) : and the household. Today, with the entry at home; they provide a unique, dynamic, Aruna Singh of so many more women into the and important contribution to their families Chief Photographer : Vijay Shah Special Correspondent : workforce, with the increasing divorce rate, and children." And according to a London Photographers: Hamad Gagandeep Singh (INDIA) and with the growing number of single- School of Economics report: "Some of the parent households, other family structures negative consequences on the wellbeing of Editorial Intern: Roubin Singh Thind Web Coordinator : Harpreet Singh have become more common." a child born to a single mother can be The statistics are eye-popping: The share reduced if their biological father joins A Publication of Media Partners Capital, Inc. of U.S. children living with no parents or an and stays with the family." REGD & MAILING OFFICE : unmarried parent has jumped from 15 percent All this supports the direct 1968 to 35 percent in 2017, according to link between childhood trauma and P.O Box 7005 Hicksville New York 11801 a Pew Research Center analysis of neglect and "deaths of despair." Census Bureau data. 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