Originally posted by IAmLuvBolly
Salman is 50 years old, Salma Khan's responsibility has long passed. But if his upbringing played a part in how he turned out, then, Salma wasn't a single mother. As much blame should be put on Salim Khan as well. She cannot criticize the Indian's society's regressive mentality of favoring sons over daughters and then turn around and put the sole responsibility of child rearing on the mother. It sounds pretty sexist and even misogynistic. Fathers play a very important part in shaping up their boys into good men or bad men. An important thing to keep in mind when one remembers Salman's attitude towards his past girlfriends.
At the same time, seeing his Mother, father, and siblings come out in the balcony and start waving and looking appreciative of the crowd celebrating their son walking away from punishment and responsibility once again, it is easy to assume they are just as caught up in Salman worshiping as the crowd below them. So perhaps Shobha De is onto something when she said he was raised with a sense of entitlement and "can do no wrong."
The father in this case is not even worth talking about. His interviews in defense of Salman make no sense! Equating him to Karna or some tragic hero and all other gibberish!
I agree with you that both parents have responsibility.
I myself advocate that.
But the point about over indulgent mothers is also valid.
Like Nargis who hid Sanjay's delinquent ways and drug abuse from Sunil Dutt for a long time.
It's problematic when mothers keep hiding or excusing wrong doings of a child and sometimes even prevent the father from disciplining the child. We have descriptions of such mothers in films like Raja Babu who would go to any extent to save their son.
Though in Salman's case I doubt if anyone ever tried to discipline him at any stage.