Perceptions of Indian Women Toward A Deserted Woman

Abstract

Marriage is a sacred and essential ritual of Indian society.The failure of a marriage is devastating to both parties, especially a woman suffers from intense feelings of anxiety, guilt, anger, depression and low self-confidence after separation. Indian women in particular makepost-desertion experiences more complicate as they are the worst critic of the divorcee/deserted woman in social periphery. Indian women look upon a divorcee /deserted woman in a pseudo-superiority complex that they have been able to maintain their matrimonial relation whereas particular divorcee/deserted woman has failed. It is tough enough to survive as a woman in patriarchal society of India, so a change in mindset of the Indian women is required to let divorcee/deserted women breathe freely get their respectful place in developing society.