Thank you Sharon, for adding your voice to this discussion.... the sad fact is that despite all the advances in medicine and contraception, as you say, the narrative around women's rights has not shifted in large swathes of most cultures in every part of the world, including the so-called 'developed',

It is terrible that so many intimate relationships are just a narcissistic males' ploy to obtain a sense of power and control over his wife and children. At least there are spaces where women can go for shelter but every choice is a hard one to make, once children are involved.