The Indian society has opened up quite a bit in the last decade. Today we see love marriages finding acceptance. We even hear about live-in relationships. But as soon as you enter any middle class household, you’ll hear constant bickering between young girls and their parents over the issue of ‘Boyfriend’!

Right from the age when we played around in our chuddies, we have been taught to disregard our attraction towards the opposite sex. But in this age of information, internet and satellite television, it is becoming increasingly difficult for parents and teenagers to understand each other.

Why Your Parents Don’t Want You To Have A Boyfriend?

• You are a little bachchi in their eyes. You will always stay so!

• This is the time to work on having a career yaar. They don’t want you to be distracted.

• They are scared that your boyfriend is not really serious, and will not really marry you! Poor darlings don’t realize that you are not really thinking that far ahead in the future. Its just timepass for you too!

• They don’t want you to be sexually active before you get married. They come from an age where men placed a premium on virginity and only junglee people had sex before marriage!

• Sometimes, they are open to the idea of you having a boyfriend. But they genuinely dislike the boy you choose, no matter how hunky he is. That’s coz they see more than the face and the bod.

• Last but not the least, they are afraid of log kya kahenge!

Why Your Daughter Wants To Have A Boyfriend?

• Blame it on the age, parents! With raging hormones and a new perception of their own sexuality, what else would you expect?

• Don’t underestimate the impact of peer pressure in this age. Usually in a class of 40, almost 35 kids have a boyfriend or girlfriend. How can a young girl (without a boyfriend) be expected to survive in such a group without feeling like a freak?

• While you sip your chai in the evening, your daughter is surfing the net, probably hooked on to orkut, checking out her scraps. The internet has made dating and meeting new people such a child’s play. It is very difficult to resist the hazaaron invitations on the net.

Now that you see each other’s viewpoint, I hope young girls and their parents will look for ways to address each other’s fears and tribulations. If at all you are having problems in this area, fikar not! You are not alone in this, and it won’t last forever. Good Luck!