This report comes to you at a time when questions around who can be family and whether adult citizens of this country have a say in formin

Children are the future of any country.

The available literature on evolution of Indian culture and civilization reveals that although the ancient writers pretended to record their revered admiration for the womanhood yet in actual practice women have always been suppressed and exploited by the dominant male members of the society.

Undernourished women tend to deliver low birth weight babies (Karmer, 1987) and to have pregnancy complications (Baird, 1947). Perinatal mortality and prematurity rates were found to be high among short statured women (Barros, 1987).

In recent years, with the increased pace of urbanisation and modernisation, Indian women of all social classes have entered professional occupations.

In India tribals are neglected a lot, discriminated in terms of income distribution and social status.

The Kandyan Marriage and Divorce (Amendment) Act, No. 23 of 2013, passed by the Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, revises the legal framework governing marriages and divorces within the Kandyan community.