The sky is blue, the wilderness is vast, and the wind blows the grass to see cattle and sheep.
Mongolia is a legendary country that is no less curious than the semi-closed North Korea.
With a territory of 1.5 million square kilometers and only a few more than 3 million people, of which single mothers account for 1/10 of its population, why does Mongolia have many widows and a small population? Where have the widows' husbands gone?
Escaping the cage of an unhappy marriage
As a neighbor of the mainland, Mongolia used to be as strong as the mainland, but when the mainland was developing, they held their inherent ideas and stagnated, but these feudal ideas gradually exposed their shortcomings over time, the most prominent of which was the problem of male superiority and inferiority.
Mongolia, a people on horseback, they have a very special affection for the grassland, living on the grassland, grazing seems to have become a tradition engraved in their bones.
Because of the strength of men, work such as herding and hunting became the exclusive domain of men, which also contributed to the supremacy of men in the family.
In Mongolia, whenever a boy is born, a feast is held in the family, but if it is a girl, the family is not happy about her birth.
It is enough to see that the status of women in Mongolia is very low, which also creates the strength of men in every family.
In 2024, in 2024, the Germany media GIZ released a report exposing the miserable lives of Mongolia Mongolia women.
Nearly 60 percent of women in Mongolia have experienced domestic violence, and nearly 20 percent of women in 2023 have experienced abuse by men other than their husbands, the report said.
It can be seen that women in Mongolia have no human rights to speak of, and domestic violence seems to have become a common occurrence in Mongolia.
But this does not mean that these women will be submissive, with the popularity of women's independent ideas in various countries, Mongolia women have gradually have independent thoughts, submissive, not treated equally, and even suffer from the husband's punch and kick life they do not want to endure, in order to get rid of unhappy marriages, many Mongolia women have chosen to divorce, and the divorce rate in Mongolia is increasing year after year.
And the vast majority of these divorced women will not choose to remarry, they would rather live a poor life with their children than touch marriage, so there are so many single mothers in Mongolia.
But this is not the only aspect of single motherhood.
The embodiment of female independence
Male superiority is a thing of the past in the eyes of most Mongolian women, but the country's ethos is still influenced by this feudal mentality, and in order not to fall into unhappy marriages, many Mongolian women choose not to marry, of course, this is limited to good women.
And these excellent women are those who are highly educated, have their own jobs, and can support themselves.
Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, has many outstanding women, some of whom are even better than men.
It is known that there are more women than men working in government offices, and the majority of employees in the education sector are women.
Independent, rich, who wants to live that kind of marriage with chicken feathers?
For this reason, many women advocate only falling in love and not getting married, even if they have children before marriage, because it is not uncommon to have children in their parents' home.
And these women are reluctant to get married even if they are pregnant, and are willing to work hard to earn money to be single mothers.
The reluctance of women in Mongolia to marry is also one of the reasons for the large number of single mothers.
Single mothers who have no meaning of marriage
There are many meaningless marriages in Mongolia, and although there is no divorce, in reality it is no different from divorce.
Most of the inhabitants of Mongolia do not have a fixed residence, they live on the steppe and live a relatively primitive life.
In order to support the whole family, the heads of the families had to go out to herd and hunt.
Although men in Mongolia have grown up in the steppe since childhood, the endless steppe has endless dangers.
Wild wolves, wild dogs, wind-blown sand...... All of them threaten their lives, and every year many men encounter misfortunes while grazing.
As a result, many women have become widows, and these widows do not choose to remarry, preferring to shoulder the burden of providing for their families alone.
There are also some women whose husbands are alive but have not been heard from again, which is no different from divorce.
Some of these women's husbands have traveled to realize their dreams of the grassland, while others have gone to Ulaanbaatar, Darhanula and other more developed cities in Mongolia to earn money.
But no matter what the reason for leaving home, most of these people do not return, some are unable to return home, while others have made their homes elsewhere.
So why don't such wives who are at home with children go to their husbands?
The reason is that the risk is too great, because they don't know where their husbands are, and it is extremely dangerous to go out alone with their children, so they would rather stay at home for the rest of their lives than go out to look for them.
There are also some women whose husbands are killed in accidents while working, and there are two main industries in Mongolia, one is animal husbandry and the other is mining, and mining is the most profitable of the two.
In order to make more money, many herders have left their hometowns to work as miners in coal mines, knowing that although coal mining makes a lot of money, the risk is very great, such as mine collapse and gas explosion, which will greatly threaten the lives of miners.
Moreover, Mongolia's mining technology is not advanced, which also leads to dangerous situations for a long time, and many people die in the mines, resulting in more and more widows.
On the whole, the large number of widows and the small population in Mongolia is not only a family problem, but also a social and economic problem, and the feudal ideology makes Mongolia only focus on agriculture and animal husbandry, ignoring the development of agriculture.
Moreover, with the degradation of the steppe, agriculture and animal husbandry have also suffered a huge impact, which has also led to increasing poverty among people, which is the main reason for the small population and widowhood of Mongolia.
However, there is one thing to admire, and that is the strong belief of these single mothers, who have lost their husbands, have not been degraded, but have become stronger, and they have supported the whole family on their own, which is unmatched by women in many countries.
The example of Mongolia also sounded the alarm bell for us, and the feudal mentality must be abandoned in time, otherwise it will have a very negative impact with the passage of time and the development of the world.
Moreover, a country must develop in many aspects, only in this way can it conform to the trend of history and be able to have its own place in the world; at the same time, the state must promulgate some subsidy rules according to the actual situation, and only in this way can all life be guaranteed.
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