. .” Solnit points out that with this law, women and their earnings will automatically pass to the husband's power and that the wife will not be allowed to touch or use them if the husband does not agree to their use. Rebecca adds to the article the anti-wife beating laws passed in 1970 in England and the United States and gives Edna O'Brien's experience of domestic violence as an example. It also describes the feminist act on same-sex marriage in which it explains that the only disadvantage was natural reproduction which in the case of heterosexual marriage is not a problem, but shows the reader the arguments they provide by explaining that «marriage serves to generate and raise children", and that reproduction in reality can occur in different ways. Solnit also reports that marriage equality is not just about raising children because even though heterosexual marriages have the benefit of having children naturally and others without children, these marriages do not guarantee