Originally Posted by pavalamani pragasam
app_engine, as for your persistent question about who is responsible for laying down principles - it is a combined effort: like charity it begins at home, to be inculcated by parents, elders; by society, in its codes of behaviour, judiciously adapted as the times change; by government, by regulating marriage laws & associated concepts, by not giving legal status to 'living together', 'homosexual marriages', stringent rules against adultery, untenable reasons for divorce, more strict enforcement of female infanticide/foeticide laws, dowry control, domestic violence, censorship of unhealthy relationship portrayals, obscenities in MEDIA etc.