Although I found the entire Penguin Atlas to be fascinating, what I really found interesting was the page on sex trafficking, particularly the mail order brides. As I was looking at the graphs for the brides, I notices that the Russian bride websites seem to be especially popular, but even more interesting, Russia is also the country with the highest levels of domestic violence deaths. Not only are these women being 'sold' as brides online, they also risk being beaten to death if they stay in Russia. Being interested, I went to goodwife.com, the site listed as having links to all of the 'meet your wife sites. The opening page of the site is filled with pictures of 1950's housewives, several paragraphs about find a good wife, and profile pictures of the women available for 'purchase'. There are links all over for other 'purchasing' sites, as well as versions of dating sites, specifically for international women, and the kicker, they are even sorted by region! So if you are absolutely set on a Russian bride, there are sites just for you! But of course, from what I can see, Latin American women are just as popular, especially among American men.
Clearly, we have a problem here. On one site I found this statement, "American men make the best husbands in the world." What!? Says who? The mail order brides who are essentially being bought? Why then does the US have an almost 50% divorce rate? That means that 1 in every 2 couples will end in divorce. And American men make the best husbands? Not with those numbers. This is a huge problem that not only affects the source countries for women, but the US as well, where these women are coming to live. What is so wring with these American men that they can't find a wife here? That, I would like to know. Although the answer from them would probably be that the problem lies with the American women, we're too independent, not enough housewife blood running through our veins anymore.
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Reading about this topic in class was one of the most shocking subjects to me! I couldn't and still can not even fathom what this is like or how someone could ever consider such a horrible thing. The idea of anyone ever getting to such a low point that they would actually "order" or "buy" a bride from the internet is ridiculous! What has our world come to? We can just sign online and buy a wife of our standards? We can choose what we want them to look like and how we want them to act! What will be next! This needs to be brought to an end.
ReplyDeleteThis is similar to the situation in Vietnam. Women there are kidnapped and then smuggled into Thailand and either forced into abusive "marriages" or sold to pimps/brothels. It's really hard these women to leave that life because of either the government, their "husbands", or even their own families.
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