Culture Couple in India sue son for not giving them a grandchild

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A couple in the north Indian state of Uttarakhand are suing their only son and his wife for not giving them a grandchild after six years of marriage.

Sanjeev and Sadhana Prasad, 61 and 57, say they used up their savings raising their son, paying for his pilot's training as well as a lavish wedding.
They are demanding compensation worth nearly $650,000 (£525,000) if no grandchild is born within a year.
Their son and his wife do not appear to have commented.

The highly unusual lawsuit was filed on grounds of "mental harassment".
Mr Prasad said he had spent all his savings on his son, sending him to the US in 2006 for pilot training at a cost of $65,000.
He returned to India in 2007, but lost his job and his family had to support him financially for more than two years, the Times of India reports.

Shrey Sagar, 35, did eventually get a job as a pilot. His parents say they arranged his marriage to Shubhangi Sinha, now 31, in 2016, in the hope that they would have a "grandchild to play with" during their retirement.

The parents say they paid for a wedding reception in a five-star hotel, a luxury car worth $80,000 and a honeymoon abroad.
"My son has been married for six years but they are still not planning a baby," Mr Prasad said. "At least if we have a grandchild to spend time with, our pain will become bearable."

The couple's lawyer, AK Srivastava, told The National that the couple had demanded the money "because of mental cruelty".
"It is a dream of every parent to become a grandparent. They had been waiting for years to become grandparents."
The couple's petition, filed in Haridwar, is expected be heard by a court on 17 May.

 

[make_it_so]

And you thought your parents were overbearing.

 

[Johnny Salami]

Just take a dump and present it to them

 

[Phalanges Mycologist]

Oh this is fun, in Indian families the birth of a first Child is considered the final act of a marriage ceremony, and it's something that the grandparents work hard for but for the firtst time in generations the Idian youth are saying nha lets not shit out a dosen children lets marry and get stable then have a kid or two.

Modernity is catching up again with Indian culture and I wonder how it's going to play out.

 

[Spicey McHaggis]

Oh this is fun, in Indian families the birth of a first Child is considered the final act of a marriage ceremony, and it's something that the grandparents work hard for but for the firtst time in generations the Idian youth are saying nha lets not shit out a dosen children lets marry and get stable then have a kid or two.

Modernity is catching up again with Indian culture and I wonder how it's going to play out.

It will crash them. India is getting old before they get rich. In the west we lucked out and modernized while birth rates were still high so we could actually pay for shit. Now they won't be able to expand, all their money will be spent on the ever growing older population, with an increasingly smaller generation to pay for it. Same thing with China.

 

[mate]

Can I be their grandchild? I brown up very well, actually.

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

I can’t believe it’s not China.

 

[Spicey McHaggis]

I can’t believe it’s not China.

There's a lot of similarities between the two countries in some ways, not that either of them would admit it.

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

There's a lot of similarities between the two countries in some ways, not that either of them would admit it.

Yeah, I’ve come to see that. I heard that’s especially the case with wealthier Indians. Asian parents are scary.

 

[Phalanges Mycologist]

I can’t believe it’s not China.

I think simmilar cases have been filed in China or other parts of Asia where the grandparents sue there kids or grand kods for not providing for them in old age, in the west we view being able to take care of our parents in there dotage as a welcome but not 100% guaranteed thing if we make it well enough to support our mum dad our wifes's parents and our kids we're doing well in Asia its different, your expected in your youth to work hard and pay your way prove your worth and have enough money to grow your family and support your elders your ment to get to middle age support your family i.e. wife and kids with money to support your elders and as they get older you support them more as your children support you more in a never ending cycle.

There is a lot of interesting social and sociological stuff arounf this but it's not the place to talk about it, but a variation of this existed in european cultures until realtively recently and it was the industrial revolution and social mobility that broke it.

 

[Looney Troons]

he’s not doing the needful

 

[Fomo Hoire]

Approximate Timeline
Not all events are important, I'm just using them to calculate shit.

Year	Event	Parents' Ages	Son/Wife's Age	Commentary
1961	Dad is born	0
1965	Mom is born	4/0
1986	Son is conceived	25/21		Important for determining when the parents were trying
1987	Son is born	26/22	0
1991	Wife is born	30/26	4/0
2006	Son goes to US to learn to fly a plane	45/41	19/15	Basically his college substitute, w/o student loans. 65k bill but daddy took care of it.
2007	Returned to India	46/42	20/16	Either he only needed 1 year for his college replacement, or he flunked. He gets a job later so I guess he finished training?
"More than 2 years"	NEETs around in India
2016	Arranged Marriage	55/51	29/25	Son is already 4 years older than Dad was when son was conceived. 80k wedding gift. Wedding+Honeymoon were paid for too, but those numbers are not given. This cost more than his college flying license.
2020	nCov-19	59/55	33/29	Not mentioned but come on, he flys planes. He's probably jobless right when wife is approaching her 30's, presumably he's got nothing to do and might even be locked down and they still aren't fucking.
2022, May if article is current	Parents sue for 650k	61/57	35/31	Wife is now officially in her 30s. Son/Wife are 10 years older than Dad/Mom were when they fucked and conceived Son.
2022, August				Conception deadline.
2023, May				Delivery deadline.
2031		70/66	45/41	Dad is expected to die, if Googling India's life expectancy can be trusted. Grandson would be 8 years old.

Parents got like a decade left to live, and all they probably see is a NEET son whose one skill is flying airplanes in an era when governments restrict international travel on the regular. I guess I can see why they're panicking that their family line is ending.

Sucks to be them. IdK how pajeet law works but if there's anything like an appeals system then they're going to die before the lawfare ends.

 

[Ser Prize]

It will crash them. India is getting old before they get rich. In the west we lucked out and modernized while birth rates were still high so we could actually pay for shit. Now they won't be able to expand, all their money will be spent on the ever growing older population, with an increasingly smaller generation to pay for it. Same thing with China.

Oh this is fun, in Indian families the birth of a first Child is considered the final act of a marriage ceremony, and it's something that the grandparents work hard for but for the firtst time in generations the Idian youth are saying nha lets not shit out a dosen children lets marry and get stable then have a kid or two.

Modernity is catching up again with Indian culture and I wonder how it's going to play out.

Is that why indian males are flooding western countries?

 

[Spicey McHaggis]

Is that why indian males are flooding western countries?

It's probably part of it, but there's more to it than that. One part is that some come here to gain skills then go back. Another is to make money to send back to their family. Finally, the west in general just has better prospects for advancement, socially and economically. India is a mess of red tape, good fucking luck trying to start a business there. The best way I ever saw an Indian put it was "when the British left, they wanted to hold us back another 100 years, so they left us with their bureaucracy".

 

[Larry David's Opera Cape]

Approximate Timeline
Not all events are important, I'm just using them to calculate shit.

Year	Event	Parents' Ages	Son's Age	Commentary
1961	Dad is born	0
1965	Mom is born	4/0
1986	Son is conceived	25/21		Important for determining when the parents were trying
1987	Son is born	26/22	0
1991	Wife is born	30/26	4/0
2006	Son goes to US to learn to fly a plane	45/41	19/15	Basically his college substitute, w/o student loans. 65k bill but daddy took care of it.
2007	Returned to India	46/42	20/16	Either he only needed 1 year for his college replacement, or he flunked. He gets a job later so I guess he finished training?
"More than 2 years"	NEETs around in India
2016	Arranged Marriage	55/51	29/25	Son is already 4 years older than Dad was when son was conceived. 80k Bill. This cost more than his college flying license.
2020	nCov-19	59/55	33/29	Not mentioned but come on, he flys planes. He's probably jobless right when wife is approaching her 30's, presumably he's got nothing to do and might even be locked down and they still aren't fucking.
2022, May if article is current	Parents sue for 650k	61/57	35/31	Wife is now officially in her 30s. Son/Wife are 10 years older than Dad/Mom were when they fucked and conceived Son.
2022, August				Conception deadline.
2023				Delivery deadline.
2031		70/66	45/41	Dad is expected to die, if Googling India's life expectancy can be trusted. Grandson would be 8 years old.

Parents got like a decade left to live, and all they probably see is a NEET son whose one skill is flying airplanes in an era when governments restrict international travel on the regular. I guess I can see why they're panicking that their family line is ending.

Sucks to be them. IdK how pajeet law works but if there's anything like an appeals system then they're going to die before the lawfare ends.

you dropped this

 

[Clotso Coof]

Suspiciously underemployed pilot disappoints helicopter parents, fails to properly fuck aging wife. Worst Bollywood film ever.

 

[Fomo Hoire]

Year	Event	Parents' Ages	Son/Wife's Age	Commentary
2016	Arranged Marriage	55/51	29/25	Son is already 4 years older than Dad was when son was conceived. 80k Bill. This cost more than his college flying license.
2022, May if article is current	Parents sue for 650k	61/57	35/31	Wife is now officially in her 30s. Son/Wife are 10 years older than Dad/Mom were when they fucked and conceived Son.

Oh fuck I just realized, if the theoretical baby is exactly the same as his dad, the baby will need his dad to arrange his marriage for him when he's 29 years old. If the Son makes a baby today, he's going to be 36 when the baby is born and 65 when Baby is 29.

Average life expectancy in India is 70, so it can be done, but it's going to be cutting it close and he's not going to be in the best shape to haggle.

Baby is fucked.

Spoiler: Tangential MATI Sperging

This realization is based on some retarded faggot who was so eager to show that he hates fictional pedophillia that he couldn't understand why using modern age of consent doesn't work in fantasy medieval worlds where people get randomly eaten by dragons at 32 or whatever.

Hey, hey anti-pedo sperg! Let's say you reach the age of majority at 18 and die at 32. You conceive a baby at 18 to avoid being a pedophile. Your wife is 18 as well.

You're both 19 when the baby is born. Or if not 19, practically 19. If you aren't born in the same part of the year, and you didn't immediately fuck eachother the moment you became of age like some kind of pedophile waiting until the jailbait's birthday, then at least one of you will probably be 19, anyways.

You need to support your kid until they reach the age of majority, 18. That means you need to live until you're 19+18= 37 years old. But average life expectancy is like 32. You'll die 5 years before your kid is ready to be an adult. And of course you won't have grandma and grandpa around to help raise the kid, they died when you were 13.

YOUR KID IS FUCKED. See there's reasons to fuck younger other than pedophillia, if you'll actually keep the lore of the media you're consuming in mind.

I'm extra MATI because the sperg - despite so performatively displaying how anti pedophillia he was - never deigned to show any outrage at NON FICTIONAL pedophillia or show support for real life organizations working to end it. He was just so focused on painting everyone else to be a pedophile supporter, when he's the one who is consuming the alleged pedophillic media.

 

[Glowing In The Streets]

And you thought your parents were overbearing.

what until they forcibly inseminate her
extra points if they get a Judicial order to do so

 

[Spicey McHaggis]

what until they forcibly inseminate her
extra points if they get a Judicial order to do so

It's India, so I can see that unironically going down.

 

[Blobby's Murder Knife]

I do wonder why the parents only had one child though. Was it choice or circumstance? I sort of feel for them if it was the latter.

The fact that the son and DIL say nothing probably means it was a lifestyle choice and they have no intention of having children. Can lead a horse to water...