It’s easy to be a feminist when one is financially independent, and in a social environment conducive to living alone?
What happens in the societies where unmarried girls stay with parents, or a dependent wife stays in her marital home AND faces mental abuse. They continue to stay there because the world outside may be crueller than that. The abusers provide a roof on the head, and an iota of deemed social respectability.
How long does it take to start earning and move out of the house?
Is it always advisable for a single girl to get married, only to escape her abusive parents?
Is it easy for a married woman to file for divorce with no support outside, and financial interests entangled with the abusive husband or in-laws?
The abuse that children grow up watching makes them think it’s normal, and the patterns spill over into their personal lives.
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Reena Saxena 
All very relevant and important observations you make there !
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Thank you! Failure to set boundaries is the biggest mistake women make.
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eighty on our one hundred
is the score
but there s more to it than that i m sure
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Proven never ending cycle
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Things need to change…
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I typed a paper written about abuse 40 years ago for a college friend and we came to the conclusion that it is a cycle that can’t seem to be broken.
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Change happens in pockets. We are not able to spread & perpetuate it. The existence of a Taliban in this day and age invites a lot of introspection.
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