The Supreme Court reprimanded the demand for divorce by terming not cooking as cruelty. The court said that the wife is not a maid but a life partner. The husband should also contribute equally in household chores like cooking and cleaning.
Cooking, keeping the house clean, running the family, taking care of everyone… The list of women’s responsibilities never ends. Whether she goes out to work or is a housewife, it seems as if some responsibilities have been fixed for her. This is because boys are not taught from childhood that they too have to do household chores. But as soon as the daughter is born, she is given training from childhood about the responsibilities to be performed in her in-laws’ house. Times have changed, but the same thinking still persists in many homes.
filed for divorce
Sometimes even the courts give decisions with similar thinking, due to which the problems increase further. Similarly, the Supreme Court has expressed displeasure over the appeal filed against the decision of a lower court. A husband had filed for divorce saying that his wife was not a good cook and this was a form of cruelty. The surprising thing is that a family court had also approved this application. Now the bench of Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Sandeep Mehta has strongly reprimanded the appeal challenging this decision.
she is not a maid
The court clearly said, “Remember, the wife is not just a maid who cooks and does the household work, she is your life partner.” The court further said that instead of complaining that the wife did not do this, did not do that, did not cook, the husband should also contribute equally in the household chores like cooking and cleaning. The judges said that it is extremely regrettable to seek divorce just by calling not cooking food as cruelty!
share equally in work
The justice said that the husband should be an equal partner in all tasks like cooking, cleaning and washing clothes. Today’s times are different. The husband has to understand that he has not married a maid but has married a life partner. He should respect his wife not as a maid but as his life partner.