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This paper focuses on familial assistance to those high caste Nepalese women who are either widowed or estranged from their husbands. Some twenty percent of high caste women may be single at any given point in time; because of discrimination in rules of inheritance, educational access and access to marketable skills, the likelihood of their full self-sufficiency, through property or work, is relatively small. Assistance from family is, therefore, essential to single women of these castes, but the structure of the kinship system and the norms governing behavior make accessing support sometimes difficult. Afflnes are responsible for the care of these women, but may have little motivation to provide it—particularly in cases of separation, divorce, or where the women is young or without offspring (therefore needing careful supervision and many years of support). Natal kin may have a greater desire to help, yet they face a number of constraints on their behavior towards once married women; thus they cart often provide some assistance, butonly rarely substantial support. Still, natal kin were found to very important at the end of a woman's marriage, a surprising finding considering the strongly patrilineal kinship system and patriarchal ideology.