भारतात, विधवा पुनर्विवाहाला कायदेशीर मान्यता आहे. तरीही पुराणमतवादी समाजांत विधवांना कमनशिबी समजले जाते. challenges of child support, finance, social stigma, security and remarriage. Family of widowers however, sympathize and console him with remarriage, many a times, to an unmarried woman. अनेकदा विधवेचे नातेवाईक तिला आधार often provide support to children making it easier for him to move on. Similar is the case with divorced men seeking unmarried women from poorer backgrounds. Such practices question the law for allowing a divorced man or widower, to remarry an unmarried woman and thus making remarriage for a woman more difficult.