behn g there is a difference between culture and religion…what you are talking about is culture…please read up on the rights of a wife in our religion, islam…before you make such a comment because it is not true …not entirely anyway…islam gives a lot of rights to the wife as well…and even morally speaking the wife has rights…please dont tell me biwi k haquuq nahin hain…hote hain aur i’m sorry to say a lot more than the mother…the mother is not nor will ever be the life partner. The only rights a mother has is that her son (not bahu, by islam bahu is not obligated to do so) should take care of her respect her and love her make sure his parents are comfortable and happy in their old age (Which does not necessarily mean he keeps them with him…it just means he looks after them even if they are in a separate house)…yeh haqq ma baap ka biwi nahin le sakti…lekin baaqi saare haquuq biwi k hain…both morally and islamically …but maybe not culturally