A child tells her mother about being sexually abused by men she knows, how much it hurts, and wonders aloud if she should not have been born at all!

Meet Kavita Baluni, who adopted fifteen month old Veda with Down Syndrome. Kavita reinstates our faith in humanity and brings home the fact that you do not have to give birth to become a mother.

My friend Janaki was worried about her 16 year old daughter going to college next year, moving out of the safe environment in which she had been all her life.

“My dear, I don’t mean to discourage you but our society is biased against single mothers but not single fathers. It’s an unfair world out there and fighting the taboo will not be easy.”

My family 'lets' the daughters have an education and work outside home, but patriarchy lurks. Men here take some privileges for granted, and that hurts.