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[quote=Anonymous]I was thinking about this also. Although I get on well with my in laws (above and below generations) so people I know do not.

I was wondering if we are a little hard wired to be defensive around in laws? Especially women? Our biology takes thousands of years to evolve while society and the status of women has been changing rapidly in the last 100 years.  In the past, and in some places still now, women had to leave their families of birth to move in with the extended families of their husbands. Often in non western societies there was more than one wife. Daughters in law were often treated like cheap labor, criticized endlessly, abused and held in outright contempt unless they could give birth to healthy sons (The entire Church of England  was born of King Henry Xiii wanting to behead/ divorce childless wives who bored him. I have lived in non western countries where young women are often treated horribly but they can gain more respect as they age if they keep their families together.

Just thinking aloud here ..[/quote]

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