Pre-marital sex is only but lead to the destruction of a family institution. In arguing my statement above I choose to strengthen it through the story of “A Great Injustice” by Heah Chwee Sian and “The Merry Maid” by Jayakaran Mukundan.
Firstly I will talk about the destruction of a family happened in The Merry Maid. In the story Lakshmi and Shanmugam are having pre marital sex that causes her to give birth to a child out of wedlock. After a long hard time in concealing the fact that she is pregnant to her family and the society, she finally give birth to healthy baby girl only but to leave her in front of Johan’s house. Indeed of doing so Lakshmi is unconsciously destroying the relationship yet just being forge between her and the child. The reason I said that because Lakshmi will lose the most important of a mother that is the privilege of raising the child. However, When she did meet her daughter back, she still cannot form the bond of a mother and daughter. The child now is being called Sakinah and more to that a muslim as contrary to Lakshmi a hindu. Even so the institution of her family is still incomplete.
In contrary to “the Merry Maid”, Ah Nya is having a different version of problem but still is consider the same as Lakshmi. Both Steven and Ah Nya are also having a child out of wedlock in a young age. The family institution between Ah Nya, Steven and the unborn is early destroyed when Ah Nya do the abortion. The family institution between Ah Nya and her own family is also destroyed as Ah Nya is being seen as bad daughter who brought shame to the family. In my opinion because of the pressure from the society Ah Nya had to abort the child avoiding her family to also suffer her humiliation. Even that the root of this problem came from having pre marital sex that then lead to having a child out of wedlock and also lead to both family destruction.
With this problem in my mind, it is a must for teenagers to be aware of this and do not make the same mistake as both story did.
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