Role of Women in Flatland Society Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott depicts a fictional two-dimensional world that “A Square” lives in. This two-dimensional world is used to satirize Victorian society and the strict social hierarchy. The role of women in Flatland’s society appears to be especially reflective of Victorian society at the time. As typical of Victorian patriarchal society, women have very few rights and are considered to be at the bottom of society. However, based on the breadth of women and other shapes in Flatland, it appears that certain shapes in Flatland have the same appearance as women from a distance making it an interesting contrast of women’s traditional role in society.
With short life expectancy and the constant threat of disease, a young woman's best bet at reproduction was in her adolescent years. However, in the cases of both Ning Lao Tai Tai and her older sister Yintze, who were thrown into very unstable marriages, it made their lives much more problematic. Yintze had a decent enough husband, but her mother-in-law was unfair and highly abusive which would eventually lead her to insanity. On the other hand, Lao Tai Tai's marriage was set up by a 'professional matchmaker', who set her up with a husband who was hopelessly addicted to opium. He spent nearly all they had to fuel his addiction, and Lao Tai Tai and her daughter suffered severe poverty and hunger for many years because of her
A change that has happened to childbearing since the 1970's is that over four in ten children are now born outside of marriage, which is five times more than it was in 1971. This means that more children are being born into lone-parent families or cohabilitating families. A reason for this is that there has been a huge decline in the stigma that used to be held over births outside marriage and also a increase in cohabiliatation. An example of this is that only one third of 18-24 year olds think marriage should come before parenthood, meaning that the rise in births outside of marriage is more to do with the increase in cohabilitating couples than it is to do with single parents. Another change that has happened in childbearing since the 1970's is that women are having fewer children and children later in life.
Remarriages are 50% more likely to divorce in the first five years compared to first marriages. There are a numbers of factors that contribute to this trend and cause the home to be unstable. The children feel at fault for their parents break-up, the stepchildren are constantly trying to figure out their position in the family structure, some children show hostility towards the stepparent and both stepparents tend to show favoritism towards their own children. Unfortunately, the women and children are the ones that suffer the most economically and academically because according to the AACC, Only Mise 3 half of the divorced men in America pay their full child support responsibility, one- quarter make partial inconsistent payment, and one-quarter pays nothing at all. Also, children of divorced parents drop out of school at twice the rate of children from
When Barbara found out she was pregnant another time, she felt an abortion would be the best decision because she had little money to support her and her son already, and her mom said that she would not help her daughter with to have another baby. Barbara went through with the abortion, and even though she was set on the idea we could see that she was going through both physical and emotional pain both during and after the procedure. The story of Imaculee was also another insightful story. In this novel we learn that Imaculee was a young girl when the genocide in Rwanda broke out. The Hutu people were killing the Tutsis just because they were Tutsi.
First of all, women are being stripped of their personal choices. Second, the victim will have a daily reminder of what happened to her. Not only that, but many girls are sexually abused at a very young age and don’t have the right resources to raise a child. The government should have no say in what a girl or woman does with her body, because they could never fully understand the suffering it would cause
The Pro-life advocates who are against late-term abortion argued that life begins at conception. At six weeks the fetus heart begins to beat and all the major organs have developed. In that case, any action deliberately taking to abort the fetus is ethically wrong and is considered as murder. An unwanted child is a pitiful thing, the thought of terminating something that if allowed to run its natural course, would result in the birth of a human being that will bring joy to most families. The Pro-abortionist focused only on a women’s right to choose and all the social problems inherent in an unwanted child, forgetting that the unborn child is a precious thing that has the right to life and deserves the full protection under the moral and ethics law.
The thought alone can drive a woman to suicide. Having a child that reminds you every day of the worst night of your life is devastating. Her plight, and the other women plight like hers I understand why they would consider the thought of ending the life of their child. As a mother, I feel nothing is more precious than the life of my child. My child means the world to me.
Although, the struggle to balance traditional culture with the modern privileges is apparent. Traditionally Greek and Roman women are suppose to uphold the duty of having and raising children, but with newfound career paths many women are having difficult obtaining both. "As a result of this dilemma, in Greece there has been a rise in abortions by working women who are afraid that pregnancy may result in the loss of their job. Indeed, many employers ask prospective female employees if they are married"(2). This fact has caused family sizes to shrink over the years giving Greece one of the lowest birthrates in Europe, and among the top five countries with the lowest birthrates in the world.
Abortion is wrong because it ends a human life, causes emotional and sometimes physical harm to the mother, and is contributing to the economic crisis. Many people think that an unborn baby is just a useless clump of cells or just tissue, which can be thrown away with the trash. This is not true. A human being is alive from the moment of their conception. Babies are little humans as well.