India: Owing to the awareness relating to Men's Rights nationwide, the number of divorce by mutual consent has gone up

2012-03-31T06:18:51+00:00

The divorce scenario in India is a mixed one. Men's rights activist Virag Dhulia says the laws relating to maintenance and child custody are highly vague and left to judicial interpretation, which is highly influenced by social mindsets and attitudes towards men.

This leads to a lot of anti-male judgments wherein judges interpret facts and laws from the mindset that a husband/father must pay, irrespective of the merits of the case, so much so that it is ok to alienate the father and the child even while asking the same father to pay for the child's upkeep.

"We get around 200 calls a week from all over India, and our campaigns have been very successful in providing emotional, psychological and legal support to men who are distressed, victimised by their wives and in-laws and by anti-male gender-biased laws. Such men get the support they need from us," Dhulia says.

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The International Association of Masculinists, a men's rights organisation, points out in a press release that the amendments to the Hindu Marriage Act and the Special Marriage Act entitled Marriage Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2010, which has seen tabled before the Cabinet, 'sets human rights back by decades if not centuries'.

Title	India: Owing to the awareness relating to Men's Rights nationwide, the number of divorce by mutual consent has gone up
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Date	March 31, 2012 6:18 AM UTC (14 years ago)
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