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Rejection of wife by husband
Name(s):
Rejection of spouse
Incidence
In India, a women's life is effectively finished if she is rejected by her husband for such reasons as insufficient dowry or bearing too many female children.
Broader
Publicly humiliated spouses
This problem is a member of 8 aggravating loops
Aggravates
Paternal negligence
[in 3 loops]
Discrimination against unmarried women
[in 5 loops]
Aggravated by
Nagging wives
Marital stress
Prohibitive marriage dowry
Gender discrimination in developing countries
Strategy(ies)
Protecting acquired legal rights of women
Value(s)
Rejection
Type
(E) Emanations of other problems