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Sukanya Das, Lovely Professional University Unit 26: Family Problems: Violence in Families, Desertion and Divorce

Unit 26: Family Problems: Violence in Families, Notes

Desertion and Divorce

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction
26.1 Violence, Sexual Exploitaion and Harassment against Women
26.2 Measures to Check Violence against Women: Suggestions

26.3 Problems of Divorce
26.4 Divorce (Talaq) among Muslims
26.5 Divorce among Christians

26.6 The Indian Divorce Act, 1869
26.7 Summary
26.8 Keywords
26.9 Review Questions
26.10 Further Readings

Objectives
After studying this unit, students will be able to:
• Classify of domestic violence against women.
• Know the problem of divorce amongst Hindus, Muslims and Christians.

Introduction
Women are an integral part of every society and are almost equal to men in number. As far as the
Indian society is concerned, the position of women has been quite high. Specially, in the Hindu
society, a man is considered incomplete without a woman, so is a woman considered without
a man. Thus, woman has been referred to as ‘Ardhangini’ which means the other half of man.
Gradually during the historical period, the socio-religious period and the Middle Age period,
the rights of women were snatched away. Compared to man their position witnessed downfall.
They were considered dependent, helpless and feeble. During the British rule, awareness about
the social and political issues started spreading in the country. It attracted the attention of social
workers and leaders. Here, the condition of women has started improving quite a lot, in the last
few years.
At the time of Independence, the literacy rate was 18.83% (male literacy 27.16% and female
literacy 8.86%). In 2001, the literacy rate in India was 64.8% (male literacy rate 75.3 and female
literacy rate 53.7).

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