>That is like saying that you see that your neighbor is beating his wife, but it's not your right to intervene.

What if :

1 - She doesn't care, it's a coutume in this country
2 - you intervene and, btw, kill her child and bless her
3 - you give her a call saying that to morrow, she'll have to call you if her husband try again, and you don't come...
4 - you call the police (legal representant) because, in _your country, it's unlegal to beat his wife ...

Fred