Fri Jun 12 2009

I have a question more than a comment. My mother and father are looking into retiring to Nicaragua. Is it a safe place for them to go? Do female expats get harrassed, attacked, or abused in any way?

Laila , Oklahoma City ( United States )

Sun Nov 02 2008

I wish to point something out as well. Not much will change if woman are not able, taught, and educated to raise their sons properly, and carefully. I have seen this first hand, and am now living with the consequences of it. My daughter is half Nicaraguan, my life has been he.. for 13 years now. Many sons are never to be held responsible, nor accountable for their behaviour. If they rape, they are welcome home, if they abuse alcohol, they are given money, or handed more because they like it, the woman are not making them happy if they are fighting against this for the good of their children, and that's just to name 2 examples, it goes on from there. These are the uneducated woman who support their sons behaviour. In many cases, the mother has little to no education, the sons are suppost to learn in church. When the sons do not follow the church teachings, they are often hit, sent to live on the streets, or the parents put up with the sons criminal behaviours while living at home and it is ignored while the family continues attending church nightly. This is in just a small city alone. I have seen churches packed full of the same hard core criminals that I knew of. I live first hand with all of this. I don't think I would come back alive if I went to visit his family there unfortunatly. It is very complicated. It starts with dealing with the after effects of war, and then education of the children. There is not much anyone can do with the grown mens attitude, it is far to convenient for them to treat women this way. They are hard-core bullies.

, London ( Canada )