Sudaramma is 66, a battered wife with an alcoholic husband. She has worked as a domestic help all her life. She hoped to sit back in her old age when her so grew up but her son is also an alcoholic. She blames herself for her son’s addiction because she feels that her work did not allow her to give him the attention he needed in his growing years. She thought his marriage would bring some changes for the better. But now she sees her daughter in law living the same hell night after night just like herself. Just like his father, once drunk, her son turns in to a sadist, beating his wife black and blue when she does not give him money to drink. Day and night, her major worry is how to change her daughter in law’s life for the better. Her son has one son and three little girls. Her grandson is sent to school but her eldest grand-daughter goes to work at an age of 13. The younger girls are not sent to school. She and her daughter in law finally rebelled and sent the younger girls to school. To support their studies, both women work in three different houses for more than10 hours each daily. Because they believe that if the girls are educated at least up to school level, they will not have to live the life mother and daughter in law lived!

Is education of girls the answer of this problem, that haunts many marriages ?
Is it only the poor women that experience violence from alcoholic husbands/partners ?
Is alcohol the main reason for domestic violence against women ?

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