The right to familial love and care

Conforming in our thought to some universal belief that family units of one man and one woman are the nucleus of 'normal' human care and love, we rarely interrogate them, rarely contest the artfully contrived institutions dependent on heterosexual paradigms and women's subservience within these parameters. Rekha had transgressed the boundaries of the 'normal', hence she had forfeited her right to familial love and care.