Plenty of later studies have shown that children whose mothers endured domestic violence for their sake, struggling to hold the family together, do not grow up happy.
Children who grow up in abusive households often have their personalities affected. In severe cases, they may even develop psychological trauma or turn to crime.
Su Li had heard stories of domestic violence before, of men who beat their wives as if it were their right, and of women who could only endure it helplessly.
Su Li was frustrated by their passivity, but she also understood the mindset of women from that era.
Whether it was the battered women themselves, or their parents, siblings, relatives, and friends, everyone would just sigh about the woman's bitter fate in marrying a husband who hit her.
The abused women would suffer in silence, weeping over their cruel destiny, but they never thought of their husbands' actions as a crime.
