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Taken for granted legitimacy and Women’s’ Rights in Sri Lanka
“...Uppannee piyaage nama liyana theeruwe..Piyaage nama irak une kohomada amme..” As colloquial and non-literary as this song sounds, it sums up a massive issue and a lacuna in the Sri Lankan law on the legitimacy of children born out of wedlock. Illegitimate, fatherless, born to a mother with bad character, these words are not unknown to the Sri Lankan society. Children...
11 June, 2017
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Marriage is grand, but divorce is twenty grand
Social aspects of divorce and Sri Lankan women
“…Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate…” (Matthew 19:6, Mark 10:12) The biblical teaching that God has...
Marriage is grand, but divorce is twenty grand
“…Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate…” (...
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