Paraguayan Women
Owner of grace, immense beauty and a huge sense of sacrifice. Paraguayan women have their own peculiarities they complain too little and bear too much.
They raise their men in a society where men rule, they educate their daughter to serve their brother and later on in adult life to serve their men.
After the war 70% of the men population were killed and women began to have children with unavailable men, still these days it is pretty normal to be a single mother and I think it is already part of our culture from way back. It is pretty Normal to have a child if a woman is around 25 years old, single or married.
Divorce has become legal since 92 and that raised the divorces specially in Asuncion, in small towns or in the country side it is still normal to have a companion even if they are not legally married they live and have children together and with time they also have the same rights as a spouse.
Women, mothers, sister…Paraguay female population is strong, they will do every kind of sacrifices for their children, they will leave the country if its necessary to bring some bread to the table. They will bear infidelities, constant abuses and insults, and still be there in the man’s shadow, they won’t abandon their husbands, they will accept the situation, they will cry and finally they will accept their faith and most will never consider leaving him…that is the way it is, specially in the country side.
A lof of the women even nowadays are called Maria (Mary in English), like Maria Rosa, Maria Mercedes, Ana Maria, etc, it has a lot to do with the fact that most people are very religious there, Maria symbolizes sacrifice, purity, humility, sanctity, etc. and so Paraguayan women.
Sometimes after divorce women don’t want to get into another relationship because some of them are still in love with the abuser, some are too religious and think that what God has united the man cannot take apart (in their minds you are only allowed to marry once) or they are kind of traumatized and really want to try a life by their self’s.
Sometimes I wonder how many “Maria’s” are around there wiping of the tears of another day of abuse…
