Taipei Times
Date: Jun 10, 2019
By: Lin Chia-tung, Wu Liang-yi and William Hetherington  /  Staff reporters, with staff writer

A Keelung woman on Friday said that she reported her husband for decades of alleged spousal abuse after seeing news reports about women receiving help in such situations.

The 86-year-old, surnamed Chen (陳), said that she faced abuse since shortly after she was married at the age of 20.

Society was more conservative then and people did not tell others about private affairs, so she never spoke of it, she said.

When she was 40, her husband began living with another woman, she said, adding that she was left to care for her three children on her own.    [FULL  STORY]