Marriage Abuse

Despite global focus on South Asia and Africa, child marriage remains legal in 37 US states, with over 300,000 cases reported since 2000.

A bride refused to marry her groom allegedly after she found him abusing in an inebriated state and smoking marijuana during the marriage function, police said on Thursday.

On June 12th, 1994, Mrs Brown Simpson was found murdered outside her Brentwood, California home.

A series of high-profile domestic violence cases in China has led young Chinese to question marriage, according to CNN.

Lawyers told AFP that several women have reported being dragged back into abusive marriages after Taliban commanders annulled their divorces.

Claiming that law was being "abused" in Assam on the pretext of the crackdown on child marriage, the TMC on Monday sought the intervention of the Chief Justice of Gauhati High Court.

Men who marry girls below 14 years will face cases against the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act in Assam, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said. The decision was taken during a state cabinet meeting on Monday.

Slamming "culture of use-and-throw", High Court makes sweeping observations on younger generation, culture, and "conscience of society"

Darlings movie review: stuck in an abusive marriage, Badru (Alia Bhatt) concocts a hare-brained scheme to get out of it, one that results in more comedy of errors than black comedy. Darlings release date and time is August 5 at 12:30pm IST on Netflix. Shefali Shah, Vijay Varma also part of Darlings cast.

Merely because sexual abuse resulted in marriage between the victim and the accused or in the birth of a child, it does not mitigate or sanctify the offence of rape, the Delhi High Court has said.

Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) president Lalu Yadav's mercurial elder son Tej Pratap Yadav, who is caught in a marital dispute, on Tuesday threatened to release videos of "abuses" that he claimed he and his family suffered after his marriage.

Sexual intercourse between husband and wife cannot be labelled rape and at worst such an act of wrongdoing can be called sexual abuse, an intervenor said in the Delhi High Court on Tuesday.

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.

Despite global focus on South Asia and Africa, child marriage remains legal in 37 US states, with over 300,000 cases reported since 2000.

A bride refused to marry her groom allegedly after she found him abusing in an inebriated state and smoking marijuana during the marriage function, police said on Thursday.

On June 12th, 1994, Mrs Brown Simpson was found murdered outside her Brentwood, California home.

A series of high-profile domestic violence cases in China has led young Chinese to question marriage, according to CNN.

Lawyers told AFP that several women have reported being dragged back into abusive marriages after Taliban commanders annulled their divorces.

Claiming that law was being "abused" in Assam on the pretext of the crackdown on child marriage, the TMC on Monday sought the intervention of the Chief Justice of Gauhati High Court.

Men who marry girls below 14 years will face cases against the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act in Assam, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said. The decision was taken during a state cabinet meeting on Monday.

Slamming "culture of use-and-throw", High Court makes sweeping observations on younger generation, culture, and "conscience of society"

Darlings movie review: stuck in an abusive marriage, Badru (Alia Bhatt) concocts a hare-brained scheme to get out of it, one that results in more comedy of errors than black comedy. Darlings release date and time is August 5 at 12:30pm IST on Netflix. Shefali Shah, Vijay Varma also part of Darlings cast.

Merely because sexual abuse resulted in marriage between the victim and the accused or in the birth of a child, it does not mitigate or sanctify the offence of rape, the Delhi High Court has said.

Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) president Lalu Yadav's mercurial elder son Tej Pratap Yadav, who is caught in a marital dispute, on Tuesday threatened to release videos of "abuses" that he claimed he and his family suffered after his marriage.

Sexual intercourse between husband and wife cannot be labelled rape and at worst such an act of wrongdoing can be called sexual abuse, an intervenor said in the Delhi High Court on Tuesday.

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.