Rachel Wilson
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She feels like she doesn't have choices.
She would love to stay home and have kids.
Most of the women who write to me are like, I had one lady write to me and say, I love
Ever since I got together with my boyfriend and started going to church with him.
All I can think about day in and day out is getting married and having kids.
I daydream during the day about my future children and I dream about them in my dreams at night.
Everything in me wants to do that.
But I'm in my last year of dental school and I have all this debt and my parents fully expect me to graduate and start a dental practice.
And if I told them I'm not going to do that, I'm just going to stay home and have kids, they would lose it.
They would probably disown me.
They would think I'd lost my mind.
They would say, are you kidding?
And I talk to women all the time who feel like they're trapped that way.
And the truth is feminism didn't make anything safer for women.
If you look at, we have so much data on this, cohabitative relationships where you just live with your boyfriend have a 35% higher domestic violence rate than married couples.