Will the Uniform Civil Code in India further alienate women from traditionally matriarchal & matrilocal cultures?

Fruits of a pandhu lily growing from a bulb planted by my Mother in the laterite soil of Thiruvananthapuram

She attended all the marriages, naming ceremonies, housewarming ceremonies and took part in the rituals after birth and before cremation of the people She knew,their children and grandchildren.

She was not a stranger in the city she lived in, a city chock-a-block with the best hospitals, well-connected with transport facilities and…full of Her relatives.

Yet when She had a stroke, no one came to attend to Her. It took Her one whole week to get to a hospital for treatment. Her son who had taken premature retirement on the grounds of caring for Her yet lived 500 kilometers away working at another job, did not come to Her aid in time. Her daughter-in-law who had Her sympathy for being the impoverished daughter of an alcoholic yet herself too lazy to work for a living and on whom She showered Her love, time and the finest jewels, only held Her in contempt for Her large belly (“no abs at all”) and was too indifferent to care.

I, Her daughter, living over 2000 kilometers away was giving care to my own disabled daughter and her father himself recovering from a recent stroke.

Her niece who was thought to be close to Her and whom She had rescued from a consanguineous marriage to a man she despised whose mother she lived in mortal fear of, ensured that I, Her daughter couldn’t pay Her my last respects. She was cremated before I arrived within a few hours of Her passing. 

Remembering my Mother on Her 8th Death Anniversary.

Will the Uniform Civil Code in India further alienate women from traditionally matriarchal & matrilocal cultures?

How to make parents/family members docile and subservient in India

...flood them with homilies and top it with the *The Advanced Directive*? As if dealing with a serious mental illness on a daily basis is not enough.

The Advance Directive and Nominated Representatives were last seen in the Mental Health Care Bill with the Standing Committee, in the Parliament of India .....

Some responses to the above:

1. Not seen any valid, empirical or double-blind study in India in the efficacy of turning parents/family members into *nominated representatives* for those with serious mental illness.

2. After the whining noise transformed into reams of print, newspapers, studies,...>about the less than 2000 patients left behind by families in the 40 Government State Hospitals in India comes *The Advance Directive* in a Bill, as an innovation hailed and shouted by its supporters. Whether knowledge of dealing with mental illness on a daily basis was imparted to the impacted families of the less than 2000 patients is conveniently not spoken of. Not to mention that *the Advance Directive* is not an *original*. It is a copycat...

3. Confining parents/family members of loved ones with mental illness into a state of docility. As if the Government of India is like ancient Sparta giving nurturing care to all its citizens with serious mental illness.

4.*The Advance Directive* = a bestowal of a contract to celebrate legal capacity? Giving away one's right to life while still living?

5.The *Advance Directive* is a legal lasso for traditional knowledge transfer.

6. What is the *how that they will be treated* in the much pushed Advance Directive. http://bit.ly/1tz0oUG

7. *Tell me please, pretty please, before my father or mother are turned into *nominated representatives ...* http://bit.ly/1ue1dFd in India
 
8.Those pushing for *the Advance Directive* for mental illness, not pushing one for *fever* ? with and without delirium?

9.Those pushing for * the Advance Directive*, for mental illness, not pushing one for *diarrhoea*? 

10. Government of India is like >giving nurturing care to all its citizens with serious mentalillness (thinking about it brings tears to my eyes) could actually come up with *the Advance Directive* ?

11. Government of India is like >giving nurturing care to all its citizens with serious mentalillness (sobbing at the very thought) could come up with *the Advance Directive* with sim cards?

12. Seen awareness creation of mentalillness through different forms of media by Government of India on Mental Health Day? like HIV/AIDS, Cancer

13. Knowledge transmissions through creating awareness campaigns for mentalillness by the Government of India being left out http://bit.ly/1tz0oUG 

14. Any *Wake Up Directive*? Only Advance Directive?

15. No *Advance Directive* for stroke? All minds in India are in the stomach.  All minds in India are still in a vacuum?