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No safe havens for victims of domestic violence

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New Delhi: She married him at 14. It was a love marriage. Within two years, she was pregnant. She didn’t know she was marrying an alcoholic. And that her 18-year-old husband would spend all the money he earned on drinking and sell whatever little the family had to buy alcohol.
In no time, the house she lived in had nothing in it except a cot, some pots and pans and her clothes. Every night when he came back home, he beat her up. When she asked him to quit drinking, he said he would rather quit living. Continue Reading.

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