Daughters

Padman aims to deal with menstruation taboo but over 50% young women in rural India use unhygienic methods of protection

More than half of young women in rural India use home-based or unsanitary methods of menstrual protection, according to national health data.

On Motherhood: Mothers tell us what they've struggled with most

Firstpost asked mothers about their greatest struggles, on Mother's Day

Rebel Girls, rise: We need feminist stories for our daughters; tales that empower and inspire

In India, not much is happening in the area of feminist literature for little girls.

The changing shape of love: A story about family, space and grief

This, I have come to conclude, is an act of love. There is no hint of reproach, indeed only a harping on how we, my brother and I, should be there for our kids. And that little laugh when she first hears our voice.

Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis supports Vivek Oberoi's ONE Foundation event

Bollywood actor Vivek Oberoi, who has been involved in many social causes in the past, will soon build a centre that will provide shelter, education, food and healthcare to the daughters of Mumbai’s sex workers.

Now 'digital India with laado' campaign in Haryana to put daughters' names on nameplates

After its ‘Beti Bachao-Selfie Banao’ initiative caught Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s attention prompting him to announce #SelfieWithDaughter, the Bibipur Panchayat on Sunday launched Beti Bachao-Selfie Banao’, a campaign to replace names of family-heads in the nameplates with their daughter’s moniker.

The awesome photos of Japanese dads jumping for joy next to their daughters

The hottest thing doing the rounds of the internet are these awesome photos taken by Japanese photographer Yûki Aoyama.

Man rapes two minor daughters: Delhi HC upholds 10-year jail term

The Delhi High Court has upheld a lower court verdict awarding 10 years jail term to a man for raping his two minor daughters saying that "absolutely no motive" can be attributed to the victims that they implicated their father.

Scientists decode why parents don't approve of daughter's partner

Scientists believe they have discovered why parents rarely think their daughter's partner is good enough for her - and it is all down to evolution!

Parent care: How a daughter is now the new 'son'

Slowly but surely, the care of aging parents in urban middle class India is shifting to the daughter who is more willing and able to be their 'budhape ka sahara' than the son.