Young brides in India are dying by suicide in alarming numbers

[LASER1]

Even in that picture was of India today magazine which called modi to be agent of hate

But anyways that is not the point. It is funny you bharatis have gall to call other obsessed while coming to a pakistani forum again and again despite several bans.

haha exactly, you're watching Modi, reading about Modi in India today. Don't tell me you're cyberstalking. Probably you follow him on twitter, FB etc...

And what exactly is your point? LOL, This? Pray to god or something, don't always open your mouth to say Modi, Modi....

No wonder modi left his wife and ran away.

 

[Shankranthi]

haha exactly, you're watching Modi, reading about Modi in India today. Don't tell me you're cyberstalking. Probably you follow him on twitter, FB etc...

And what exactly is your point? LOL, This? Pray to god or something, don't always open your mouth to say Modi, Modi....

If most people in this forum chant Allah .... alllah ... allah .... instead of Modi .....Modi ..... Modi, it might do some good in their lives.

 

[maximuswarrior]

It is terrible. Only empty promises from Mr. wide chest Modi. What is he going to blame this on?

 

[Areesh]

haha exactly, you're watching Modi, reading about Modi in India today. Don't tell me you're cyberstalking. Probably you follow him on twitter, FB etc...

And what exactly is your point? LOL, This? Pray to god or something, don't always open your mouth to say Modi, Modi....

Nobody follows that filth my dear bharati. It was a years old magazine title mocking your current PM. Anyways it is beyond your comprehension.

Now coming to question of obsession l. Why you a bharati is still present on a pakistani forum despite you were banned and kicked out several times by the mods? Explain this obsession of yourself and not only yourself but your whole nation with Pakistan.

If most people in this forum chant Allah .... alllah ... allah .... instead of Modi .....Modi ..... Modi, it might do some good in their lives.

Not going to happen. This is Islam where God is still the same for thousands of years

But in hinduism since we can have a new God daily so we surely can have Hafiz saeed as the latest bhagwan if we look at the way bharati hindus wet their paints by just his name

Jai shree hafiz saeed bajrangbali ki

 

[jamahir]

Marriage is a useless outdated custom. If love is freedom than marriage is bondage. People should say no to marriage and start living together with the one/ones they love.

In Islam at least, marriage gave the wife the guarantee of financial security. Recall the "Haq-e-
Mahr" ( or just Mahr ).

Living-in may seem cool but in patriarchal societies the female would be at disadvantage. Marriage provides females with a security blanket.

However, in the quest for a scientific society the USSR wanted to abolish the concept of the traditional family, which I too agree.

 

[LASER1]

Nobody follows that filth my dear bharati. It was a years old magazine title mocking your current PM. Anyways it is beyond your comprehension.

And yet you have Modi. Talk about obsession.

 

[Areesh]

And yet you have Modi. Talk about obsession.

I have my PM

You tell me why you here again despite several bans

 

[LASER1]

I have my PM

You tell me why you here again despite several bans

Who? Modi?

Lol! I was never banned. Go confer with mods.

 

[Areesh]

Who? Modi?

Lol! I was never banned. Go confer with mods.

I wAs NeVeR bAnNeD

Anyways why you are here despite getting kicked out several time? To give rishta of your sister or something?? That can explain if it isn't obsession

 

[Jaanbaz]

Forced marriages?

 

[Clutch]

India accounts for almost 40 per cent of female suicides worldwide

This is a shocking stat...

 

[maximuswarrior]

This is a shocking stat...

It is and I was rubbing my eyes too. Indian males are going to be raping a lot more in the coming years if Indian females keep taking their lives at this rate.

What is Killing Indian Women?

On October 1st, Pushpalatha, a 24-year-old Chennai resident, joined numerous other Indian women who make up the largest global demographic by committing suicide. Her decision came on the heels of the Indian Supreme Court’s ruling that decriminalized adultery on September 27th of this year. Pushplatha’s marriage was a love marriage in India as opposed to an arranged one, to 27-year-old Franklin. While she contracted tuberculosis and was undergoing treatment, Franklin began an extra-marital affair and when confronted, told Pushplatha that he was free to act at will and that she could no longer file a case against him as adultery was not a criminal offence anymore. Dejected, Pushpalatha took the extreme step and committed suicide.

A Lancet study published in early September reported that there were approximately 230,000 suicides in India in 2016 and called this a public health crisis since 36.6% of global female suicides happen in India. For a large portion of Indian women, marriages are arranged by family and happen early in their lives which falls in line with the country’s deeply patriarchal society. With the expectation of rearing children and running a household, education takes an obvious backseat. Limited resources and expensive private education, owing to lack of government benefits, also leaves parents with the hard choice of deciding which child’s education to fund. The male child traditionally is the one who supports the parents as they grow old, while the girl child is married off. Many parents also forgo their daughter’s education, especially higher studies, to compensate for the dowry that is paid at the time of marriage in spite of dowry payments being declared illegal.

According to the 2011 census, 84 million children and teenagers are out of school with the enrollment gap between girls and boys consistently increasing with age. The National Family Health Survey Report, says 68.4 percent of women are literate as compared to 85.7 percent of men and only 35.7 percent of women have 10 or more years of schooling. Though many girls do receive a primary education, they drop out at the secondary and higher levels to enter into matrimony. Unable to fend for themselves, these women, dependent entirely on their husbands for sustenance and continue living in abusive marriages rife with domestic violence. The report puts the spousal violence for this period at 31.1 percent but it is still a severely under-reported crime. Suffering in silence while living in a bleak situation leads to depression, a concern that is hardly addressed in India for men or women, which leads to suicides in extreme cases. It hardly comes as a surprise that around 20,000 Indian housewives, mostly in the 15-39 age group, have annually been committing suicide since 1997 according to reports by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). The bureau’s 2016 report stated that “cruelty by husband or his relatives” was the most reported crime by women with 33% share of total violations stated.

Within a marriage, an Indian woman has other woes to cope with since marital rape is not considered a criminal offense in the country. The National Family Health Survey also noted that more than 80 percent of married women who had experienced sexual violence had faced it at the hands of their spouse. Domestic violence and forced sex within a highly dependent marriage together lead to what can best be described as abusive relationships that women cannot break out of.

While most girls drop out of school owing to familial pressure, others are forced to withdraw because of safety concerns. Earlier this month, 36 girls from Saharsa, Bihar, dropped out of school owing to rampant public sexual harassment. This comes on the heels of another incident from the same state where a group of girls being harassed by boys and on confronting them were beaten up by the boys and their families. Tortured by continual harassment and afraid of being subjected to sexual violence, many teenage girls across India simply stop going to school altogether. The Thomson Reuters Foundation survey of 550 experts released in June this year, placed India as the most dangerous country in the world for women due to rampant sexual violence, human trafficking for domestic work, forced labor, forced marriage and sexual slavery, among other reasons.

UNICEF’s Hidden in Plain Sight report, released in 2014, which studied the demographic and health surveys conducted in India between 2005-2013 said 42% India girls face sexual violence before entering their teenage years. News reports from across the country are rife with accounts of girls committing suicide right after being sexually harassed/violated or while fighting a long-drawn legal battle with her rapist which seems to be going nowhere. Sexual violence or harassment is viewed as a “loss of honor” in India’s patriarchal society which values women’s “innocence” and “purity” and hands the victim instead of the perpetrator, the blame, shame, and stigma associated with a violation of this sort. The rate of conviction of cases concerning sexual crimes in India is so bleak that most women choose not to file a complaint owing to the shame associated and subsequent harassment during the trial period, the end of which might be years from when a complaint is initially filed. The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) 2016 report states that 39 crimes against women were reported every hour in India wherein rape, a highly under-reported crime, accounted for 11 percent of the total share. This was also the year since 2007 with the lowest conviction rate of 18.9% of complaints where court trials witnessed completion.

While all these factors can push women towards a mental health breakdown, there is hardly much help available within the country. According to the latest World Health Organization estimates, India leads the rankings as the most depressed nation in the world. Its bleak mental health workforce includes, per 100,000 population, psychiatrists (0.3), nurses (0.12), psychologists (0.07) and social workers (0.07). In such an environment it is not hard to imagine the trauma and despair that both men and women face on a daily basis and are pushed to take extreme steps.

https://intpolicydigest.org/2018/12/02/what-is-killing-indian-women/

This is just so bloody extreme. This is a national disaster for India.

 

[TruthTheOnlyDefense]

The number of women dying by suicide in India has been described as a "public health crisis".

India accounts for almost 40 per cent of female suicides worldwide — and young, married women are most at risk.

Key points:

• Nearly two in five global female suicides occur in India — and that's just those recorded
• Factors reportedly include arranged marriages, young motherhood and domestic violence
• It has been described as a "public health crisis" that the Government is failing to address

Women in India are also 2.1 times more likely to die by suicide than the global average, accounting for 71 per cent of deaths in women aged under 40, according to a study published in medical journal The Lancet.

Suicide was the leading cause of death in women aged 15 to 29, with death rates higher among women than men in that age group, it said.

The study also found "arranged and early marriage, young motherhood, low social status and domestic violence" were factors contributing to the nation's high suicide rates.

"In Western countries a marriage is protective to women but in India it seems that marriage is not protective," said Dr Manjula O'Connor, a Melbourne-based psychiatrist who works closely with Australia's Indian community.

"It relates to the patriarchal factors and the level of oppression and lack of autonomy that women feel within a marital situation."

University of Adelaide associate professor Peter Mayer, who is an expert on suicide in India, has coined it the "desperate housewives" effect.

Though the female suicide rate has actually fallen since 1990, nearly two in five global female suicides are recorded in India, making it a "public health crisis" in the country, Dr Mayer said.

As in most countries, overall suicide death rates in India are higher among men than women, at 21.2 and 14.7 per 100,000 people respectively, but globally Indian men account for about 25 per cent of male suicides, the Lancet study said.

Dr O'Connor said she believed suicide was also a problem among young women in Australia's Indian community.

However, statistics are difficult to pin down, as the Australian Bureau of Statistics does not release information on suicide deaths based on ethnicity or culture.

Family violence and murder in Australian Hindu and Sikh communities

There are growing concerns about a recent, significant increase in domestic violence in Hindu and Sikh communities, a crisis which has become public in a spate of horrific deaths.

Many of those affected were young women who travelled from India to Australia to enter arranged marriages, arriving with "dreams of freedom" only to find their new husband is "coercive or controlling", Dr O'Connor said.

"They fight back against the demand for dowry or control over their wages, and when they fight back it leads to family violence," she said, which can compound with stressors such as social isolation and mental health issues.

The practice of dowry — common in India and among Indian communities overseas — involves a bride's family giving money or goods to her husband once they are married.

A Senate inquiry into dowry abuse in Australiais due to hand down its report on Thursday December 6.

Discussion of suicide and related mental illness still carries a heavy stigma in India, with researchers saying it presents a barrier to addressing some of the root causes.

"In India the idea that you might have some kind of mental health problem is not only a problem for you, it will affect your sister's ability to get married," Dr Mayer said.

"There are all sorts of constraints to one's ability to admit depression."

PHOTO India's Parliament passed the Mental Healthcare Act in 2017, but it has been the subject of some controversy.
FLICKR: NEVIL ZAVERI


Conflicting legislation and a lack of prevention
These constraints have also included the law — under the Penal Code, attempting suicide is punishable by up to a year in prison and a fine, and hospitals have been required to report patients to authorities.

Last year, Parliament in India passed the Mental Healthcare Act, which in theory decriminalises suicide attempts.

But the founder of Indian suicide prevention organisation Sneha, Dr Lakshmi Vijayakumar, said that in practice the two pieces of legislation now exist in opposition to one another.

"We still do not know what the hospital has to do — do they report it or do they just ignore it?," she said. "Some do, some don't. They are very confused."

India is also struggling to deliver basic health services and eliminate disease, Dr Mayer said, let alone provide adequate specialised mental health services.

"To really deal with the suicide crisis it would have to invest in finding policies that work," he said, such as counselling and medication.

All of which could be done — but there is "a lack of awareness" of the scale of the problem and "no public pressure for change", he said.

According to the World Health Organisation, the most recently available statistics show there were just 0.3 psychiatrists per 100,000 people in India in 2011.

Dr Vijayakumar said the Government "has not made any effort at all" to tackle the issue until now, though she received notification on Wednesday that the Government wanted to develop a national prevention strategy.

India's Ministry of Health did not respond to a request for comment.

https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018...suicide-alarming-numbers/10562076?pfmredir=sm

Domestic violence, marital rape, harassment for dowry, caste, the pressure to kill their unborn baby girls etc no wonder Indian women are killing themselves.

 

[Mage]

Why not marry the one you love, and no one else. In the modern world, everyone pick who they marry.

It’s time for India to step into the modern world.

Why not live together without marrying? Much less hassle. Separation is easier. Human mind is an unpredictable thing. Who knows whom we may like after years? Feelings change with time.....it can grow stronger or it can grow weaker..why get bounded by the chain of marriage?

 

[maximuswarrior]

Why not live together without marrying? Much less hassle. Separation is easier. Human mind is an unpredictable thing. Who knows whom we may like after years? Feelings change with time.....it can grow stronger or it can grow weaker..why get bounded by the chain of marriage?

Won't make India's problems disappear.