Any woman who is infertile is treated as a social outcast and avoided so that other women are not tainted by her 'disease'. Her in-laws view her with displeasure. Her husband is often pressurized to abandon her and take another wife but his fertility is never questioned. In cases where the man remarries, he often chooses to marry a woman of proven fertility, someone who has already borne children through a previous marriage. Gulab, Prashant and Sushila Thote.
Local quacks offer all kinds of treatment for a considerable sum of money.
Babulal and Namitra Gandhvir of Navargaon had been childless for six years. Yet his mother was pushing him to remarry. In desperation, the couple spent over a thousand rupees on unsuccessful treatment. Another gave them ash and told Namitra to take it for five days. Gopal and Sobha Girepunje were similarly unsuccessful in their quest for treatment.