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Lasting welfare effects of widowhood in a poor country

Little is known about the situation facing widows and their dependent children in West Africa especially after the widow remarries. Women in Malian society are vulnerable to the loss of husbands especially in rural areas. Households headed by widows have significantly lower living standards on average than male or other female headed households in both rural and urban areas; this holds both unconditionally and conditional on observable household and individual characteristics including age. Furthermore, the adverse welfare effects of widowhood appear to persist even after widows are absorbed into male headed households. An examination of individual measures of well-being further reveals that, relative to other women, worse outcomes for ever-widowed women persist through remarriage. These detrimental effects are passed on to children, indicating an intergenerational transmission of poverty stemming from widowhood.

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ang wali sa sunday mass karon nga akong na-attend--komedyante pa gyod ang pari nga batan-on--nagsugod sa iyang pagpangutana ug "kinsa ninyo dihay gustong mabalo?"  naglingianay tawon ang mga maninimbahay kay nahibung, dayon nangatawa. 

ni-explain si pari sa kalisod sa mga widows during the time of jesus christ.  kun mamatay diay ang bana, ang estate sa lalaki kuhaon tanan sa gobyerno.  zerohan gyod ang widow ug ang iyang mga anak.  unsa god diay.  di diay tawo ang widow ug ang mga orphans adtong panahona kun mao.  grabeh.   

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hinoon, bisag pait palandungon, arang-arang na lang pod diay sa panahon ni jesus christ kay bawian lag kabtangan, di pareha sa india before the british stopped the practice of suttee.  tiaw bay sunogon ug apil ang biyuda sa funeral pyre sa iyang bana.  daugdaog man gyod intawon na to the max.

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Though outlawed in India, the archaic and cruel tradition is very much in practice.

The most high-profile sati (or suttee) incident was in Rajasthan in 1987 when 18-year-old Roop Kanwar was burned to death.

The case sparked national and international outrage.

Police charged Roop Kanwar’s father-in-law and brother-in-law with forcing her to sit on the pyre with her husband’s body, but the two men were acquitted by an Indian court in October 1996.

more at http://tcdh.wordpress.com/2010/06/04/women-of-the-world-series-sati/

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 No one knows how suttee started, or for that matter where or when. It's not unique to India--widow suicide is known to have occurred among the Egyptians, Chinese, Vikings, and others. Some say its origin on the subcontinent dates back 5,500 years, while others believe it arrived much later, around 1 AD. I've heard Indians deny there's anything specifically Hindu about it, in that it doesn't figure in Hinduism's core texts. Today it's most closely associated with remote villages dominated by the Rajputs.

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di jud makatawhanon ni nga practice dapat jud ni silang bantayan sa human rights group. Tiaw pa pud mao pay nabaw sunugon pa basin anak gagmay iapil pud. Hadloka pud ning bride burning.

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