There's a book I believe everyone should read, it's a real eye opener.
Half The Sky
There are times when we might think we have it hard here, and our streetwalkers and working girls who are abusing drugs, may very well be our equivalent, but those things are nothing compared to what the women in other countries are suffering. sweetestmelinda is right, that woman and her daughter would have suffered much worse had she tried to report it. Women have virtually zero rights, are the property of their men to do with as they see fit, and believe me, what they have them do is below the very worst you could think of.
She will have had to be clever throughout her life, so yes her methods must have been premeditated, but if it's one thing a mother will want for their children, it's a better life than the one she has/had, if it were extremely impoverished or unfortunate in any other manner. She clearly wanted to make sure her little girl, seventeen or not, didn't have to suffer at the hands of her abusive step-father.
There were a few books I read last year that I think should be required reading for the populous, Half The Sky is certainly one of them. I will admit there were parts of it where I wouldn't have been able to keep a dry eye if I tried.
Half The Sky
There are times when we might think we have it hard here, and our streetwalkers and working girls who are abusing drugs, may very well be our equivalent, but those things are nothing compared to what the women in other countries are suffering. sweetestmelinda is right, that woman and her daughter would have suffered much worse had she tried to report it. Women have virtually zero rights, are the property of their men to do with as they see fit, and believe me, what they have them do is below the very worst you could think of.
She will have had to be clever throughout her life, so yes her methods must have been premeditated, but if it's one thing a mother will want for their children, it's a better life than the one she has/had, if it were extremely impoverished or unfortunate in any other manner. She clearly wanted to make sure her little girl, seventeen or not, didn't have to suffer at the hands of her abusive step-father.
There were a few books I read last year that I think should be required reading for the populous, Half The Sky is certainly one of them. I will admit there were parts of it where I wouldn't have been able to keep a dry eye if I tried.