The Bombay High Court has said defaming husband and calling him a womaniser and alcoholic without substantiating the allegations amount to cruelty, and upheld a family court order dissolving the marriage of a Pune-based couple. The bench said the wife's conduct in making unwarranted and false allegations against her husband's character results in damage to his reputation in society and …
A few years ago, I attended the funeral of a close family relative who had succumbed to alcoholism. People with Alcohol Use Disorder, the medical term for alcoholism, have an impaired ability to stop or control alcohol use despite adverse social, occupational, or health consequences. Worldwide, alcoholism causes three million deaths every year, is responsible for 5.1% of the global …
A 16-year-old boy allegedly killed his alcoholic father with an axe while he was asleep early on Friday in Rajasthan's Kota district, police said. Around 3.30 am, the boy took an axe from the house and attacked his father multiple times, resulting in his death on the spot while other members of the family were asleep in another room, Station …
During this pandemic year, I have spent a lot of time praying for the children of alcoholics and addicts, trapped by one disease that demands we all stay at home — and cornered by another that can turn a loving parent into a frightening abuser at the drop of an ice cube, the squeak of a Chardonnay cork. Joy and …