Archive · 16 Aug 2026
Attitudinal Change Needed as Relationships Become Transactions, Columnist Says
A writer who teaches about life wrote a column about how people treat each other.
He says our world is full of ideas and rules that people learned a long time ago.
Some of those old ideas may no longer fit the way we live today, so we need to rethink them.
He believes every family is like the world's first school because children learn how to behave there.
If families have problems, those problems spread to the whole community.
He points out that in India, big families that included grandparents, parents, and cousins are being replaced by smaller families.
When people treat relationships like a trade where they only give if they get something back, trust goes away.
He says we can see this in more and more marriages ending in divorce.
He believes that if people change their attitudes and build stronger families, the whole world can become better.
The column argues that society's systems rest on attitudes and beliefs acquired over time that now need re-examination.
It states that without an inspiring ideal, people chase comfort and success instead of character and significance.
The writer calls the family society's unit and first school, where most attitudes form and deterioration begins.
India is described as seeing more nuclear families than joint families, weakening a traditional support system.
The article says relationships have become 'give and take' transactions that erode trust and increase divorce cases.
- Who
- A spiritual educator and columnist writing for publications across India, USA, UK, Australia, South Africa, Canada and Mauritius.
- What
- An opinion column arguing that transactional relationships and eroding family values call for attitudinal change.
- When
- Not specified in the article.
- Where
- India, where the column notes a shift from joint to nuclear families; the column is also published across several other countries.
- Why
- To argue that stronger families and changed attitudes can build a better world as trust in relationships erodes.
- Author
- Spiritual educator and columnist (name not stated)
- Published columns
- 9800+
- Core argument
- Attitudinal change is needed to build better families and a better world
- Family role
- Unit of society and first school where attitudes are formed
- India observation
- Rising nuclear families and declining joint families
- Relationship trend
- Relationships becoming 'give and take' transactions
- Sign of erosion
- Increasing number of divorce cases
- Publication reach
- India, USA, UK, Australia, South Africa, Canada and Mauritius