and there was a part that sadden me. Reading about an African family who both the Mother and the Father contracted the HIV/AIDS disease; the country is so plague by poverty that they had to choose which one of them would receive treatment. When it came down to it the father would be the one who would get the treatment. Women in Africa are so low on the totem pole that would have to give up their lives just so that their children could be taken care of after they have passed; if the husband were to become deceased the wife would lose the land, lose contact with family members, therefore, unable to care for the children. It is not right that women should be treated this way, and what gets me is that men for ages try to use the Bible to justify their behavior and attitude toward women.
What can we do to help women in third world countries? I would really like to know.
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