When the Other Woman or Man understands better
The Straits Times / 25 June , Singapore - - -
....Subservience is no longer accepted among Asian wives. Popular culture, even in Japan, parodies such subservience - most notoriously in the image of the devoted Japanese mother who bathes the baby, cooks dinner for the family, feeds the children, and then keels over and dies even as her husband wolfs down his meal, oblivious.
...... psychiatrist W. Robert Beavers' method of gauging the health and competence of families. Called the Beavers Scale, it grades families on a scale of one to five, with one being 'optimal' - that is, a happy family whose members mutually respect and care for each other - and five being 'severely disturbed', that is, a family in total chaos.