A woman with her daughter carries pots filled with drinking water in a rural part of Maharashtra, India in this file photo taken May 16, 2016. (Photo by Manoej Paateel/shutterstock.com)
Mar 13 2021
Renuka Singh, a 35-year-old housewife from India’s northern state of Haryana, vividly remembers the ordeal she experienced when she ran away from her in-laws’ house with one of her daughters.
Married for four years, Renuka said she was subjected to extreme abuse from her in-laws because she couldn’t give birth to a boy.
A year after the marriage, she gave birth to a girl. Two years later she had another girl born again, further displeasing her husband’s parents.
“The tortures inflicted upon me were numerous then. I was made to do all the household work of the extended family; even given little food to eat and my daughters were loved by none except me in the family,” Renuka told LiCAS.news.
She claimed her husband often beat her. Meanwhile her two daughters were treated like slaves and denied a basic education.
“When my elder daughter Pari turned three I wanted her to be admitted in a nearby government-run daycare center so that she could begin to learn. I was abused and beaten by my husband for even thinking to have her admitted into the school,” Renuka said.
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