Q145. Why should women be protected from degradation?

The women produce children, and they should teach them what is right, and what is wrong (moral values and religious teachings). But when women become polluted, they become irreligious and the whole generation becomes degraded. For this reason, women should be protected from becoming polluted. Girls should not be sent away from the home to work/study and should be married off at an early age. Otherwise the chances of them becoming polluted are very high. At work, at colleges, and on the web, there are many lusty males who have their eyes set on females for enjoyment. The spiritually dumb girls will be easily hooked and will suffer as a result. It is the responsibility of the parents to give their children some basic religious education. So, the children can know the truth and become spiritually strong. If the parents don’t teach their children the truth, others will teach them lies and the children will become misguided and irreligious. Due to lack of good guidance by the parents and in some cases bad guidance from parents (irreligious parents), the girls everywhere are rejecting culture and religion, and wanting what they call freedom. That is defined as partying, drinking, no culture, no religion, no respect for the elders, and behaving like the dogs on the street (sex outside of marriage). The result of this is that women suffer more in the form of single mother families and prostitution. “When irreligion prevails in the family, the women become corrupted and unwanted children are born.” (Bhagavad-Gita 1.40)