Effect of socio-religious activities on children and women: A study of Kauwan Khera village of Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh

Present paper is the outcome of the some socio-ritualistic beliefs and practices which may be hazardous for the life of women and children. This paper focused on an insight view of the incidents which happening at present, which is somewhere not good for the physical and the mental health, many of the superstitious beliefs are adjacent to each other, some of them deals with important events in a person's life such as birth, entering adulthood, marriage, pregnancy and death as well. In village society, researcher observed that women's have more blind faith upon the activities that are associated with fear when compare with men as women are the key part, and they have specific role as perform many important rituals. The present paper analyze the socio-religious practice among the women and child health problems, arising partly from the mistreatment of human and material resources, have endangered the natural healthy environment. The present article throws light on the community perspective towards the causes of various diseases prevalent among rural people and tried to bring out some conclusion out of it.