Widow example sentences

Laws were passed to stop the practice of sati and to encourage the remarriage of widows.The initial government plan was to set up institutions for orphans and widows.Women are also depicted as following their heroic husbands in both life and death – there are stories about the practice of sati or the immolation of widows on the funeral pyre of their husbands.For example, one cannot force a widowed woman to shave head or wear white clothes.Yet, the number of widows who actually remarried remained low.In many parts of the country people believed that if a woman was educated, she would become a widow.In the north, Swami Dayanand Saraswati, who founded the reform association called Arya Samaj, also supported widow remarriage.By the second half of the nineteenth century, the movement in favour of widow remarriage spread to other parts of the country.They have to be adults before they are legally married, and according to law, they can marry anyone they like, from any caste and community, and widows can remarry too.Women's education, the plight of widows, and problems created by the early marriage of girls – all these were important issues for social reformers in Karnataka at that time.It worked to abolish caste distinctions and promote widow remarriage and women's education.Prashant's group believed orphans should be resettled in their own community itself, possibly in new foster families made up of childless widows and children without adult care.For instance, one of the most famous reformers, Ishwarchandra idyasagar, used the ancient texts to suggest that widows could remarry.Sivaraman's 65 year old widowed mother is ill and needs to be helped with her daily chores.Established in 1867 at Bombay, the Prarthana Samaj sought to remove caste restrictions, abolish child marriage, encourage the education of women, and end the ban on widow remarriage.