Love Burns: An Essay about Bride Burning in India
| Autor: | David M. Heimbach, Rajni K. Jutla |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Domestic Violence
media_common.quotation_subject India Poison control Legislation Criminology Suicide prevention Occupational safety and health Injury prevention Humans Medicine Marriage Spouses General Nursing media_common Daughter business.industry Rehabilitation Human factors and ergonomics Dowry Gift Giving General Health Professions Emergency Medicine Female Surgery Burns business |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Burn Care & Rehabilitation. 25:165-170 |
| ISSN: | 1534-5939 0273-8481 |
| Popis: | Each year in countries like India, thousands of young women are burned to death or afflicted with fatal burns. They are victims of dowry deaths. The husband and/or in-laws have determined that the dowry, a gift given from the daughter's parents to the husband, was inadequate and therefore attempt to murder the new bride to make the husband available to remarry or to punish the bride and her family. Unfortunately, this is a domestic issue that is often ignored or minimized, and the prosecution is often inadequate. This review article illustrates various scenarios of dowry deaths, investigates different predispositions, summarizes the current legislation, and proposes solutions to this problem. One hopes that the exposure of this problem may curtail its rampant, yet well-hidden, prevalence. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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