Abusive Marriage

The government Thursday said it has no information as on date regarding data on increase in cases of child abuse due to the Covid-related lockdown situations and data on the increase in child marriage cases across the country.

Abused by her husband, Aanie SP walked out of her marriage, going on to become a Kerala police Sub-Inspector in the same town she struggled in to make a living. Now her message to other women in similar trouble is simple: "Don't think twice. Leave."

At a time when the Pollachi sex scandal is sending shock waves across the country, the Nagapattinam police in Tamil Nadu have arrested a 23-year-old man for allegedly shooting objectionable videos of a woman and trying to blackmail her into marrying him.

The argument allegedly began over a bottle of bath soap and ended with Elaine Rigas's then-husband lunging at her throat. As she held their 1-year-old son in a bathtub, Rigas said, she feared that the man would strangle her to death.

A 28-year-old employee of an multinational company has alleged she was raped by a married man in the city, who also duped her of Rs 10 lakh, the police said on Thursday. In her complaint filed at a police station in Dwarka district on Monday, the woman alleged the 48-year-old man raped her on the pretext of marriage. She also said the accused's wif...

A woman was severely beaten by her husband and in-laws in Uttar Pradesh's Babra village allegedly for not bearing a male child. Rekha Devi, 30, whose hands were fractured in the beating, had given birth to three daughters during her eight years of marriage which upset her family, police said.

A White House speechwriter resigned Friday after his former wife claimed that he was violent and emotionally abusive during their turbulent two-and-a-half-year marriage - allegations that he vehemently denied, saying she was the one who victimized him.

Wanted: attractive young women wearing sexy underpants to serve as hostesses for British business bigwigs at drunken old-boys-only charity affair.

A Delhi court has sentenced a man to three years in jail for sexually harassing and threatening to throw acid on a woman after she rejected his marriage proposal.

No matter how great the sex might be, staying in a relationship that is mentally or physically abusive is not the best idea.

There are currently 94 cases in India where a child from the US has been registered as kidnapped by one parent and brought to India after the marriage broke down.

As you enter Achanak and Gammiwala villages in Punjab’s Mansa, nearly 170 km from Chandigarh, a message board with words inscribed in Gurmukhi welcomes you. For villagers, this message board has become a symbol of pride. [social_icons] It reads, “We declare our village free from the practice of child marriage. We do not allow child marriages he...

As women, we tend to look past these taunts and barbs and admonitions about our clothes or the length and state of our hair. We forgive our boyfriends or husbands for their uncultivated tastes, their conservative choices, their religious upbringing, their rural origins or their political positions.

A 16-year-old schoolgirl in Hyderabad, who returned home after being forced to marry a man more than double her age, has been served a legal notice reminding her of her "conjugal duties".

In a five-part post shared on the Humans of Amsterdam page on the weekend, Nadia talks about her marriage to an abusive man who allegedly kidnapped their two-year-old daughter and took her to Mumbai after their divorce. She has been fighting to get her daughter back since.

The government Thursday said it has no information as on date regarding data on increase in cases of child abuse due to the Covid-related lockdown situations and data on the increase in child marriage cases across the country.

Abused by her husband, Aanie SP walked out of her marriage, going on to become a Kerala police Sub-Inspector in the same town she struggled in to make a living. Now her message to other women in similar trouble is simple: "Don't think twice. Leave."

At a time when the Pollachi sex scandal is sending shock waves across the country, the Nagapattinam police in Tamil Nadu have arrested a 23-year-old man for allegedly shooting objectionable videos of a woman and trying to blackmail her into marrying him.

The argument allegedly began over a bottle of bath soap and ended with Elaine Rigas's then-husband lunging at her throat. As she held their 1-year-old son in a bathtub, Rigas said, she feared that the man would strangle her to death.

A 28-year-old employee of an multinational company has alleged she was raped by a married man in the city, who also duped her of Rs 10 lakh, the police said on Thursday. In her complaint filed at a police station in Dwarka district on Monday, the woman alleged the 48-year-old man raped her on the pretext of marriage. She also said the accused's wif...

A woman was severely beaten by her husband and in-laws in Uttar Pradesh's Babra village allegedly for not bearing a male child. Rekha Devi, 30, whose hands were fractured in the beating, had given birth to three daughters during her eight years of marriage which upset her family, police said.

A White House speechwriter resigned Friday after his former wife claimed that he was violent and emotionally abusive during their turbulent two-and-a-half-year marriage - allegations that he vehemently denied, saying she was the one who victimized him.

Wanted: attractive young women wearing sexy underpants to serve as hostesses for British business bigwigs at drunken old-boys-only charity affair.

A Delhi court has sentenced a man to three years in jail for sexually harassing and threatening to throw acid on a woman after she rejected his marriage proposal.

No matter how great the sex might be, staying in a relationship that is mentally or physically abusive is not the best idea.

There are currently 94 cases in India where a child from the US has been registered as kidnapped by one parent and brought to India after the marriage broke down.

As you enter Achanak and Gammiwala villages in Punjab’s Mansa, nearly 170 km from Chandigarh, a message board with words inscribed in Gurmukhi welcomes you. For villagers, this message board has become a symbol of pride. [social_icons] It reads, “We declare our village free from the practice of child marriage. We do not allow child marriages he...

As women, we tend to look past these taunts and barbs and admonitions about our clothes or the length and state of our hair. We forgive our boyfriends or husbands for their uncultivated tastes, their conservative choices, their religious upbringing, their rural origins or their political positions.

A 16-year-old schoolgirl in Hyderabad, who returned home after being forced to marry a man more than double her age, has been served a legal notice reminding her of her "conjugal duties".

In a five-part post shared on the Humans of Amsterdam page on the weekend, Nadia talks about her marriage to an abusive man who allegedly kidnapped their two-year-old daughter and took her to Mumbai after their divorce. She has been fighting to get her daughter back since.