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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 12.3.42

న రక్షిష్యన్తి మనుజా: స్థవిరౌ పితరావపి । పుత్రాన్ భార్యాం చ కులజాం క్షుద్రా: శిశ్న‍ోదరంభరా: ॥ ౪౨ ॥
na rakṣiṣyanti manujāḥ
[na rakshishyanti manujaah]
sthavirau pitarāv api
[sthavirau pitaraav api]
putrān bhāryāṁ ca kula-jāṁ
[putraan bhaaryaam cha kula-jaam]
kṣudrāḥ śiśnodaraṁ-bharāḥ
[kshudraah shishnodaram-bharaah]
na rakṣiṣyanti — they will not protect manujāḥ — men sthavirau — elderly pitarau — parents api — even putrān — children bhāryām — wife ca — also kula-jām — born of a proper family kṣudrāḥ — petty śiśna-udaram — their genitals and belly bharāḥ — simply maintaining.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
na rakṣiṣyanti manujāḥ
na rakṣiṣyanti
they will not protect
manujāḥ
men
sthavirau pitarāv api
sthavirau
elderly
pitarau
parents
api
even
putrān bhāryāṁ ca kula-jāṁ
putrān
children
bhāryām
wife
ca
also
kula-jām
born of a proper family
kṣudrāḥ śiśnodaraṁ-bharāḥ
kṣudrāḥ
petty
śiśna-udaram
their genitals and belly
bharāḥ
simply maintaining.
Men will no longer protect their elderly parents, their children or their respectable wives. Thoroughly degraded, they will care only to satisfy their own bellies and genitals.

In this age many people are already sending their elderly parents away to lonely, and often bizarre, old-age homes, although the elderly parents spent their entire lives serving their children.

Young children are also tormented in many ways in this age. Suicide among children has increased dramatically in recent years because they are being born not to loving, religious parents but to degraded, selfish men and women. In fact, children are often born because a birth-control pill, a prophylactic or some other contraceptive device malfunctioned. Under such conditions, it is very difficult nowadays for parents to morally guide their children. Generally ignorant of spiritual science, parents cannot lead their children on the path of liberation and thus fail to fulfill their primary responsibility in family life.

As predicted in this verse, adultery has become common, and people in general are extremely concerned with eating and sex, which they consider far more important than knowing the Absolute Truth.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
Only interested in food and sex, degraded men will no longer protect their elderly parents, their children or their respectable wives.
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