A series in which The Swaddle team indulges your pity party with advice you'll probably ignore.

The misuse of dowry laws has led to an alarming number of innocent women getting caught up in the criminal justice system.

There's a limit to how many relationships we can keep going at any given time.

A handy guide to keeping the protest going, even at home.

"They lost their son. We had lost our parents. The best idea was to stay together as one, small happy family."

The report highlights the trade-offs and contradictions that characterize women's struggle for agency.

Last week, the world’s largest family tree was revealed. Comprising 13 million people, and crowdsourced from profiles on the platform Geni.com, the first scientifically vetted tree of this size contains “the stories of whole countries and, at the risk of 

“Aishwarya and Abhishek Bachchan Will Never Move out of Jalsa” screamed the headlines. “Why do I care? And whose business is it besides theirs, you patriarchal twits?” I screamed back. Unfortunately, webpages cannot hear us (yet). And, thus, a rant 

PROBLEM: My inlaws are pressuring my husband and me to live in a joint family  with them, now that we have a baby on the way. I think they’re starting to sway my husband. But is a joint family the 

The average Indian family is changing – how it is made, whom it comprises, and what their roles and obligations are — and a new study suggests that the change could be rooted in our own, simple efforts to give our 

I’m pregnant with my first child, and neither my parents nor my in-laws like the names we’ve chosen. In fact, my mother has gone so far as to tell me she will call my child a name that she likes, 

As the air begins to smell of autumn, I feel a slight blip in my blood pressure indicative of two things: the excitement of the festive season and dread of its special balancing act. For the past few years, I 

As part of our Women & Work discussion, we set out to understand the options and choices Indian parents have around work and home life. First, an encouraging stat: 91% of our female respondents were professionally engaged outside the home. 

Much has been said about the so-called leaking pipeline of Indian women dropping out of the workforce. We’ve posited many explanations for this phenomenon, from corporate policies to inadequate government protection to workplace bias or women’s own ambition. But so far, 

I wasn’t there for two consecutive days to put my son to bed – so the nanny did. He didn’t fuss much. She has her bedtime routine, holding and rocking him. It works for him. But it doesn’t work for 

Overwhelmed and harried, we watch a band of professional movers pack away 50 years of family life into crates and cases. My husband’s parents have enjoyed this apartment for exactly half a century now – the last 25 years with 

If you’re a woman, it’s tough to get through a whole day without hearing something that makes you cringe. Most of the time, it’s meant in an understanding way or as a statement of fact. But intent doesn’t actually make 

“We like to sleep in her bed,” my son declares. “Her ghost is there.” I think of all the fears my children have had – of spiders, of lizards, and other tiny creatures. Yet, this notion of a ghost under