Posted by Fay on June 10, 2008, 5:40 am, in reply to "Re: Fictional Countries"
Generally speaking, in the UK it is not common for a man to kill his wife if she commits adultery and I don't think any Caucasian British man would kill his wife or sister because she was raped. SHE is the victim.
However, there are incidences of honour killings of women within immigrant communities. When discovered, the perpetrators get long jail sentences. Murder is murder, no excuses are acceptable under British law.
There was a case recently when a family brought in a girl from Pakistan to marry their son. He beat his wife to death over a period of time and his widowed mother and sister turned a blind eye to the beatings. They all got jailed.
A British born woman with a British passport cannot be spirited away into a forced marriage abroad, that's illegal. If she can get to the police in the UK or a British consulate/embassy abroad, her family will get prosecuted.
As to the crisis of masculinity..yes I agree there is one, too many men now are brought up without a father, without male teachers and thry get confused about themselves
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