Only through changed attitudes about gender relations and what is to be considered acceptable behaviors among family members, could domestic relations be improved. And this in turn required another change of attitude: that domestic affairs should become political issues. The attitude that it’s no one’s business if a man gets drunk and beats his wife and children every Tuesday, or the idea that women should shut up and obey their husbands, won’t change much just because the state says it’s wrong. It is mainly within civil society that any substantial changes to such discourses can come about.
