"Wives were instructed to be attentive to their husbands" needs and ready to obey their every command." ... " [B]y the middle centuries of the last millennium B.C.E., the extended family was increasingly regarded as the ideal. ... Five links were stressed: three family links (father and son, elder brother and younger brother, husband and wife), one political link (ruler and subject), and one social link (friend and friend)." ...

• Word Count: 769
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

When a bride enters a family, she lives with the husband's family. There has to be a good relationship between the bride and her husband's family. ... " Words Ashima has neither heard nor expects to hear from her own husband; this is not how they are.... In Indian society, once a bride enters a family she moves in with her husband's family. ... Complications can come with a bride living in her husband's house. ...

• Word Count: 2139
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

And this ideal can be universally realized only if the means of production of the elementary necessaries of life remain in the control of the masses. ... I could not steal into my wife's heart until I decided to treat her differently than I used to do, and so I restored to her all her rights by dispossessing myself of all my so-called rights as her husband." ... It is not because the husband was not making enough money, but because it was what she wanted to do and she has the freedom to do so. ...

• Word Count: 2611
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School