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StarOcean said:
Aeolus451 said:
People should really try to understand the culture/religion of the person they're marrying into and how much their spouse's family follows the culture before getting married.

This. Very much this

The woman is Indian from freaking India. I'd say she knows the culture.

30% of women in America in general report being an abusive relationship. That's tens of millions of women, but yeah lets single this one incident out. 

Here's a sobering stat:

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/domestic-violence-statistics_n_5959776

The number of American troops killed in Afghanistan and Iraq between 2001 and 2012 was 6,488. The number of American women who were murdered by current or ex male partners during that time was 11,766.