i appreciate the attempt to socially dissolve this system, but is literally throwing money at the problem ethical or effective? how is this different from getting a dowry from the girl's parents? now you're getting it from the gov't (man or woman).

Quoted: BAIRAGHAR, India- Plenty of women may feel they deserve an award for marrying their husbands, but Madhavi Arwar is actually getting one -- from the Indian government, no less.

uh...67 kids? wtf?

Quoted: Despite having eight wives and 67 children, Shahadeh Abu Arrar, a member of Israel’s impoverished Bedouin Arab community, told Israel media that he is seeking a ninth wife.

Quoted: More surprising, perhaps, is just how rare divorce still is in India. Only about one in 100 marriages here ends in divorce compared with much higher percentages in the U.S. and in western European countries such as France and Germany. But the divorce rate is now rising in this country. In urban India it has doubled over the past five years, despite the fact that failed marriages remain a cause for shame in much of the country and that divorced people, especially women, continue to face fierce social stigmatization and often find it hard to remarry.

Quoted: The BBC's Damian Grammaticas reports on the plight of devadasis, slaves of the goddess of fertility.

what?! i didn't know this existed in India...dude i just lost a lot of respect for my religion. what hypocracy...first you sell your daughters to prostitution in the name of god, and then you have the audacity to negatively stigmatize them for life?