Henpecked Husbands Form Club

[matcom]

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THOUSANDS of Indian women are tormented by dowry demands, but in a room crammed with dusty files an 87-year-old lawyer fields countless calls complaining of a less publicised problem: husbands harassed by their wives.

A.K. Singh bellows instructions to the men who call him and gives them the address of his dimly-lit office full of cobwebs in a lower-middle-class part of the south Indian technology hub Bangalore.

Singh founded the Harassed Husbands Association in 1994 in the belief that while the spotlight was on abusive husbands, there are also many "poor men tortured by their wives."

"In India many wives take advantage of anti-dowry laws and file false complaints against their husbands," Singh said.

On his motivation for founding the association, Singh said: "Fortunately there is harmony in my married life."

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,9286175%255E13762,00.html

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Proposed club password: YES, DEAR . . . .

[JPace]

2. Hmmm....

"But anti-dowry activists say most cases go unreported and estimate a woman is murdered over dowry ever 10 minutes in India - often by burning in killings dismissed as kitchen accidents."

Says about 7000 women are murdered each year because the
husband and his family take revenge for not getting a
promised dowry from the brides family.

I'll bet none of the allegedly abused husbands mysteriously
burn to death from "kitchen fires".

What goes around comes around.

[TriadLeftist]

3. I was going to join ...

But my wife wouldn't let me.


(Sorry - had to go there)