Seventeen-year-old Khushboo Singh, says,” My home is a place of violence. My father engages in drunken brawls and beats up my mother at the slightest pretext. He also is openly partial to my brother. I have summoned courage and begun to talk with him. I tell him that it wrong to abuse my mother and discriminate between his children. I think he is getting the message. I am not certain though whether there will be any dramatic changes.”