Mothers-in-Law: Not a Laughing Matter

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
February 16, 2010

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/698/mothers-in-law-not-a-laughing-matter

Excerpt:

Yesterday I wrote about Nujood Ali, the ten-year-old girl who demanded and received a landmark divorce from her husband–a man three times older than his young bride, a man who raped and battered her day after day and night after night. This all took place in Yemen.

What happened was not unusual. Rather, such behavior is normative, common, expected.

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