Shreya Biswas
Volume-XIV, Issue-I, October 2025
Volume-XIV, Issue-I, October 2025 | ||
Received: 20.10.2025 | Accepted: 23.10.2025 | |||
Published Online: 31.10.2025 | Page No: 114-118 | |||
DOI: 10.64031/pratidhwanitheecho.vol.14.issue.01W.037 | ||||
Understanding The
Complexities and Challenges of Single Motherhood in India: A Study
Shreya Biswas, Research Scholar, The University of Burdwan, Bardhaman, West Bengal,
India | |
The entire discourse of single parenthood in India is still
a subject of question on the issue. The primary aim of this paper is to throw
light on this very contentious issue of single motherhood in India. This paper
seeks to unearth multifarious facets of such lone parenting and its socio- cultural,
economic and legal ramifications. Firstly, this paper seeks to limn light on
the various reasons that culminates in lone parenting. Secondly this paper
seeks to explore the challenges faced by such matriarchs and the daily
hardships that they overcome in order to raise their children singlehandedly.
These mothers also tremendously suffer from serious psychological and mental
anguish. These families that donot conform to the typical, conventional family
structures they are debased and vitiated. Besides the mental anguish, these
lone mothers specially the ones who has to solely fend for their next-of-kins,
suffer from severe financial crunch, sometimes barely maintaining their hand-
to- mouth existence. Besides, crafting a
legal edifice catering to these special cases, a strong societal scaffolding
coupled with adequate facilities of public health and education is the need of
the hour. Being purely theoretical research, it’s based on qualitative analysis
and drawn from articles, books and relevant websites. | |
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