6. He was a very controlling father.
Gandhi was markedly un-affectionate toward his sons as they grew up. When his eighteen-year-old son asked for permission to marry, Gandhi told him that he was no longer his son. When the son did marry, his wife died, and Gandhi prohibited him from remarrying. When Gandhi discovered that his second son had slept with a married woman, he made the matter public while fasting and persuading the woman to shave her hair.
