Tag: children
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Cohabitation as a Legal Controversy in India
By Pratiksha Yadav, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. Traditionally, in India, there existed only one kind of relationship between an unrelated male and female and that was “Marriage”. Marriage legally entitles both the persons involved, to co-habit; the children born out of a legal wedlock are legitimate; the wife is entitled to maintenance during the subsistence of marriage…
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Child Rights in India: The Ground Reality
By Gautam Adusumalli, Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, Delhi University. Did you know that children constitute over a third of India’s 1.2 billion population, and that India has the largest population of children in the world? In fact, over 17% of the world’s children live in India, which means that every sixth child in the world today refers…