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The other evening, my 7-year-old son asked me a simple yet disarming question:
“Dad, when I grow up, will I live separately?”

It took me a moment to respond. I smiled and asked him,
“Tell me, am I big or small?”
He replied, “You’re big, Dad.”

So I asked,
“Then tell me, am I living separately or with whom?”
He thought for a moment and said,
“With Mom, Didi, and me.”

I smiled again and said,
“Then how can you live separately, my son?”
He looked at me, paused, and said softly,
“Yes, you’re right, Dad.”

That brief exchange stayed with me.
In that innocent question lay the truth of our times — that children today are growing up in a world where separation feels normal, and togetherness feels temporary.

We have built societies so nuclear that the idea of living as one family seems like a memory of the past.
And yet, in that small conversation, I found hope — a reminder that the values of love, connection, and family still live in the purest corners of a child’s heart.

Let’s not let those values fade.
Sometimes, the deepest lessons come not from books or laws, but from the innocent questions of our children.

— Sidheswar Jena
PhD Scholar – Law