I'll back you up. More young women need decent FATHERS in their lives than they need husbands, IMHO.
When I married at 18 to my High School sweetheart (also 18) my Dad said to me, "You can marry him, but you're going to have to finish raising him. Do you think you're up to the task?"
That marriage lasted six years, until I finally got fed up with "raising" him.
And Dear Old Dad was there to pick up the pieces for me. He wasn't HAPPY with me, and even sent me "back into the ring" a few times, but he was supportive.
I "chose wisely" the next time around. :)
I have no idea how to help women of other cultures. I think it's "pay as you go" for all of us women as far as bad marriages go no matter what our culture may be.
Thank you, Diana.
But I'm afraid it's really impossible to control kids when society (and the media) doesn't back parents up.
If they did, kids would grow up with more sense anyway.
In our modern society, parents are treated practically as abusers if they deny or discipline their kids.
Most horrible of all are those states with laws that allow kids to have abortions without their parents' knowledge.
Sorry about your first, by the way.