How Many Mothers Have to Say ‘He Will Kill My Child’ and then he does Before Anyone Listens? NONE OF US SHOULD BE COMPLYING WITH THIS CORRUPT AND MURDEROUS INSTITUTION. Take your child and flee. That is the sanest and safest response.
Marriage in America is defended as voluntary and equal. But when exit triggers economic punishment, custody risk, and enforcement failure, the structure reveals something else: modern slavery hidden inside normalcy. Slavery is illegal--so it hides.
Marriage in America functions as a coercive labor regime for women. Exit is punished, unpaid labor is extracted, and violence and Threats to the woman and the children enforces compliance.