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These young widows faced rejection from their families, discrimination at work, and difficulty in coping with their life circumstances [35].
By 1994, children of never-married mothers accounted for almost two-thirds of the caseload, compared with only 30 percent for children of divorced or separated parents, and 2 percent for the children of widows.
Men are the clear winners of this arrangement in both social and economic terms, and many widows and their children, dispossessed or not, struggle against enormous odds simply to survive.
In a recent survey by CARE-Nepal, almost half of those who came to the voluntary counselling and testing centre at the Doti District Hospital in Silgadhi, a conflict-affected area, during June–July 2004 tested positive for HIV, and almost all of those tested positive were widows in their twenties and thirties [35].
Men such as Governor-General William Bentinck worked with missionaries and reformers such as Brahman Ram Mohan Roy to legislate against the practice of widows becoming sati by climbing onto the funeral pyres of their respective husbands.