ANTA02H3 Chapter : Week 12 reading.docx
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People prefer to give birth to boys since girls are too easy to rape . Male violence because women gaining more rights in society and in the household. Men lost much of their power due to bad economic standards (unemployment) and structural transformations. Candy received money from welfare and ssi checks, independent women who had lots of respect on the streets. Candy was abused by her father, therefore got married at 13 and had a baby with felix. They ran away from courts who tried to take their baby, she was abused by felix and attempted suicide a number of times. Candy you see when you re a child-abused daughter from the age of 8months to thirteen then you find an abused husband (battered women syndrome) Felix caused her a number of miscarriages through abuse maybe because of decline in work.
