The group is part of a growing network that has created shelters, counseling services and legal assistance for immigrant women. Specialists train police to help abused women who are isolated by language and the loss of the family and friends they left behind. The men felt like, 'This is not my wife. That is still a major source of tension. I married a man who did not expect me to stay home after marriage.
Many Iranian men expect that.
They think women in Los Angeles have become too selfish, that they are not as loving and sacrificing and giving. That a woman from Iran will be more obedient. One marriage founded on that mutual misunderstanding involved a Sacramento-based Iranian immigrant. He stayed behind. He said, 'This not what I had expected.