Why most Indian parents disrespect their childrens love affair ??

Mostly as you said is because of what others may think or say is the main issue as in the Indian Society people mostly have the habit and time to poke their nose in everbody else's business...But another issue is that kind of parents even though they have had their children educated in the modern world they themselves have a attitude in them where they expect to make decisions or do anything on what the parents think are right..I could say Arrogance too...Hitler ke zamaane ke aashiq hai...

In India marriage is not jsut a uniuon between a couple. After marriage you can not move away from both the families and live alone. Its a uniuon between families. where to families join and share each others sorrows and you take care of your elderly people. Hence its nice if you do have blessings of both the sides. Many times its not the issue of simply caste or relatives. In India kids are brought up by their parents in a very protective environment,t hey are not supposed to go out and earn as soon as they are sixteen. Especally girls are over protected and not exposed to the society in a way that can prepare them to trkae a stand and make up their own minds and when such a girl approaches her parents about her lovoe for the boy she has been seeing for few months, naturally parents are scared for her. I have seen three bad uniuons in my family itself. Now when girls are suffering they have nooen else to blame but themselves and they cannot divorce as thats not an option our society leaves for them. Questrion is also of the finacial independence as they didn't complete the studies who will now employ them and how will they support their kids. One of my cousines married a boy who for fourteen year after a marriage was still unemployed and was struggling to make ends meet. He used to beat her, drink a lot and even tried to rape the younger sister of my cousine.He has been banished from the house of her parents now but they are still together. as she has to take care of two kids and she is without a job and qualification too. Parents are old and can not afford to keep them. another one of my cousine has married a person working in a small hotel in Pahadganj as a desk clerk. His fahter is a vegetable vendor and one of his brother does embroidery work at a tailor shop. They belong to a low income group family. She was raised by her parents who belong to a well to do family type. She had always used cars as a means of travel. She wore branded clothes and had got schooling from top delhi school. Now she is working to run her house may be in begining she is happy but what will happen when she has kids and she remembers her chidhood how she was nurtured and she can not afford same nurturing for her own kids. third case is of another boy from my family who has married a girl for money and broken all ties from his own family as that was the conditon put by the girl. She said she can not manage with his financially poor parents. These are all love marriages. Will you still support matches like these being an Indian.

All the parents in India had treating their children as their investments and wants to earn from them. It is unlike to the customary theories in the other world. They are treating them children as lives like them to grown up and earn for them selves. This difference is unique in our society.

Yes most of the indian parents disrespect theirs children's love affair as they themselves have developed in a culture where marriages are through arranged ones by parents rather than love marriages. Moreover there are a number of issues which they see at like the caste and sub castes of the girl and boy. Some communities are very strict in realtion to religious issues that they can go to any length to stop the affair. Help from the police would be handy for lovers who want to marrry without their parents concent and they are adults.

i think the society is the most important culprit, due to which parents tries to break out the knots of their children, from the person whom they love most in their life. inter caste marriages are still not acceptable in our society, there are only few who can stand against the society and have the courage to support their kids. secondly i think since they love their children, they feel they can choose a more better partner.