Why were you in prison?
The fact that you have stated you are basing your assumptions about the motivations and behaviour of women in general on what you observed of the particular sub-section of women who you knew as fellow inmates in prison is likely to be the explanation for the opinions that you’ve given being so far removed from most people’s experiences of other women.
This is hardly a good basis to extrapolate to the population women as a whole, given that it is well documented that the vast majority of women who end up in prison are people who live chaotic lives, have suffered abuse as a child (53%), many grew up in care (31%), the vast majority have severe mental health problems (82%), many of whom were sleeping rough prior to imprisonment (13%) usually due to being long-term drug addicts, many of whom have significant learning disabilities (average IQ of 87, with 32% having an IQ lower than 80). Only 5% of the female prison population has a passing grade of 4 or above in maths GCSE and only 10% in English. Fewer than 1% have A levels of equivalent and only a tiny fraction of a percentage have a degree. In some prison-specific studies it was found that 70% of female inmates have had children removed from their care by social services prior to their conviction (not because of being imprisoned). Only 19% of women had a job before being remanded/ imprisoned, and less than 5% had a full-time permanent job.
This is obviously not a representative sample of the female population of the UK. The female prison population largely consists of disadvantaged, traumatised, intellectually challenged women who have often suffered homelessness, addiction and violence, who live very chaotic lives and the majority of whom have been deemed unfit to parent their own children and, therefore, had their children removed from their care prior to the offence for which they were imprisoned. Clearly, given these statistics, the vast majority women in prison are not people who are capable of identifying appropriate relationships or what is a good way to raise children/ providing an appropriate environment for them to live in without being harmed.
The vast majority of women, evidently, do not share the same values/ views/ societal attitudes/ behaviours as the average member of the female prison population.
I hope you have some better people in your life now.