In the Western world today, the family has a very weak foundation. Families – especially women – suffer from separations and breakups. If a family, God forbid, breaks up, both the man and the woman in the family will be left wondering what to do, upset, and suffering. However, the woman will suffer the most. In the Western world today, women are suffering from this, because families easily break up and are abolished. Sometimes, women want to break up the family themselves, yet they end up suffering the most from this separation.
Imam Khamenei
Sept. 18, 1996