According to this research, FGM serves as a method of birth control and as a form of encouragement for the man who is the most powerful member of the family, also known as the patriarchal family system. FGM also serves as a symbol of the transition from being a girl to a woman, making girls believe that FGM is necessary to be a real woman. FGM is synonymous with purity and high social status because only families with a good income can afford to have their girls circumcised. All this leaves enormous mental pressure on women. In the research, 500 Nigerian women were asked several reasons why women should undergo FGM. What I found very disturbing about the finding was that 11% of women thought FGM prevented the death of male newborns (Utz-Billing & Kentenich, 2008). What is so disturbing is that not only is their belief the exact opposite of reality, but it focuses on male newborns. Mutilated women live in a society where men are the dominant sex and where women wish to give birth to only children. This is because men are above all the only ones who are allowed to study and work, and therefore have an income. More importantly, the family with a son will receive money from another family if he marries the daughter. This shows how discriminatory and prejudiced these companies are towards women. This research also examines the mental and social consequences of FGM, which is what I find very important about this study. According to research, FGM leaves women with a sense of incompleteness, fear, inferiority and repression. Many women lose faith in humanity because they were never informed about the FGM procedure before it was performed. Factors like these make women very susceptible to depression, psychosis, neurosis and psychosomatic illnesses... half of the article... what should be considered is that FGM can be very traumatic and the human brain works in a way in which he purposely forgets traumatic events to protect the person's mental health. This is also known as motivated forgetting (Deprince, Brown, Cheit and Freud). The only reason I could accept these complicated numbers as true is if most women had undergone Type I FGM, which is the least invasive type of FGM that reduces the risk of complications. What made me very upset about this research was that approximately 35 percent of the women in the sample had planned to mutilate their daughters (Yasin, Al-Tawil, Shabila, & Al-Hadithi, 2013). I understand that they fear bringing shame to the family if they don't do so and that they want to make sure they can find their daughter a good husband. My problem is that daughters have no choice.