Keen observation, Melinda
I’m a firm believer in the two-parent home and wish all women could stay home and raise the kids. Still, I struggle with why modern women choose to marry or stay with physically abusive men that beat them and/or their kids. Maybe they should take longer to get to know these men before marriage and avoid the whole situation. I know abusive women too. It’s not all on the men. Abusive people are not spouse material regardless of the time in history. Get to know the people you plan to spend the rest of your life with. Nobody gets killed that way. I knew my husband six years before we got married.