Consent of the family, community, or clan is not necessary for two consenting adults to get married, SC adds.

The ruling was in response to an interfaith couple's plea that the public notice period would enable interference and harassment.

Framed as economic empowerment initiatives, the schemes just happen to ensure the 'purity' of the upper-caste gene pool.

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

In a six-month-old Facebook post, the professor had compared mangalsutra-wearing women to "chained dogs."

"If a Brahmin family says 'caste no bar,' they're not looking for someone from a lower caste community. They could probably go a sub-caste lower or within the sub-caste."

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The policy is a more a knee-jerk response to the domestic violence problem under lockdown than a viable long-term solution.

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Through a constant perpetuation of what an ideal relationship looks like, society has decreed other forms of love less valuable.

If all goes to plan, Costa Rica is set to become the first Central American country to legalize gay marriage.

Because honor killings take place at an intersection of motives -- caste, religion, ethnicity, class -- there must be a separate law that addresses the common link between them.

The government prioritizes keeping even violent marriages intact over holding men who rape their wives accountable.

"Financial infidelity is a lot like sexual infidelity, in the sense that both include lies, deceit, and secrets."

Gender stereotypes of men being breadwinners make it hard for them to cope when women contribute equally or more to household income.

Shifting a relationship from monogamy to something else takes a lot of discussion.

Even in a progressive country like Sweden, men feel insecure when their female partners attain positions of power.