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...leave their husbands as their husbands are to leave them, in India's rural villages, it's still the men who initiate most divorces - often leaving women and children with no financial and little family support. "Poor women in villages are often just abandoned," says George, who works for Streevani, a Pune-based non-governmental organization that, according to its website, is "committed to the empowerment of women in India". "Some have no chance to remarry because according to the rules of their caste they cannot, even though...
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