It is common for survivors to be blamed for the violence they experience and, as a result, they may experience social stigmatization, be deemed unmarriageable, and be rejected by their own families. |
A link was wanting between two craving parts of nature, and he was hurled into being as the bridge over that yawning need, the mediator betwixt two else unmarriageable facts. |
For a woman in this society, Tagore empathetically shows, to be unmarried is a social and religious disgrace, and there is nothing a family resents more than an unmarriageable daughter. |
Meanwhile, a surplus of unmarriageable young men can be seriously destabilizing. |
For similar reasons many women, unmarriageable through physical defects, seem to have been placed in nunneries. |
We extend to Mr. P. our sincere sympathy in the greatest calamity that can befall an unmarriageable man. |