God Bless those women

One question that has confused me here is asking how many children are in a family. The response is always given with how many children the mother has. I asked the sisters why do you say the mother and not their parents. The sisters said, it is the mother who carries the baby when she is pregnant and the mother who suffers to raise the children and give them an education. The father comes and goes as he pleases. He might leave for two or three years and then decide to come back. Haitian men think women are weak, which is very strange to me. I think of a mother washing clothes here. Not only does she walk to the nearest river or water supply, hand wash clothes, probably for seven or more people but then she has to walk back with a load of wet, heavy clothes on top of their head. I don’t know weak people here.