You wrote:
“They don’t do anything about it because they have taken themselves out of the work force to stay at home with the kids ... where is she going to go? Oh, yeah, to a shelter, right ....”
So you think the choice is lousy marriage or the shelter? How about the wife going to her husband? How about the wife telling him what she needs? It sounds like your friends picked losers. Who does that say more about? All your friends picked losers. All of them? So all the women you know have such poor judgment? Maybe the men are not the only problem.
You tell me how an abused wife is going to go to her husband and telling him what she needs ... I am not saying that all husbands are like that. We can be just as demanding. What I’ve been referring to is how religions treat us as second class citizens ....