NEW DELHI, India (CNN) — Some 50 mothers-in-law have come together in a campaign seeking legal protection from what they allege is abuse of laws favoring daughters-in-law in the country.
“There are a number of laws to protect daughters-in-law in India, but there is none to protect us,” said Neena Dhulia, coordinator of the newly-launched All India Mother-in-Law Protection Forum.
The group was formed last Sunday in the southern Indian city of Bangalore, she told CNN.
In India, thousands of brides are alleged to be killed each year over dowries.
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Sub: Launch of All India Mother-in-law Protection Forum (AIMPF)
All India Mother-in-Law Protection Forum (AIMPF) is the first ever social forum created to protect the rights and interests of the mother-in-law. It is a non-funded non-profit organization which will create awareness about the problems faced by mothers-in-law and also fight against the de-facto villainous projection in the socio-legal arena. It can be reached at http://www.aimpf.org .
The mothers-in-law could not bear the harassment any further and said, “Enough is enough” and got together to campaign against:
- The stereotyping of mothers-in-law as evil and blood thirsty by media and popular culture. This violates the civil liberties and the constitutional provisions of right to liberty and right to life.
- It has been scientifically and also statistically established fact that mothers-in-law are unnecessarily maligned and subjected to judgmental attitudes by society.
- National Family Health Survey (NFHS) (http://www.nfhsindia.org Vol-1 Page 500) has conclusively established that a woman in the age group of 15-49 years of age faces 8 times more violence from her own mother compared to mother-in-law. 13.7% women have faced violence from their own mother as compared to 1.7% women who have faced from their mothers-in-law.
- Recent Research has shown that “daughters-in-law are programmed to hate mothers-in-law”. This is one of the most important causes of the stereotyping of mothers-in-law in society.
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