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Comment author: TheAncientGeek 22 July 2015 03:35:17PM 0 points [-]

I was actually getting a weird impression from that book. The primary reason laws and institutions are indeed increasingly aware of and trying to deal with spousal abuse is not that it gets more noticed today, but because it actually does happen more than in the past where communal pressure could have worked against it.

Is that based with figures?

Comment author: [deleted] 22 July 2015 03:37:49PM 0 points [-]

Nope, TD is an essayist.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 22 July 2015 03:51:58PM 0 points [-]

Casual assumptions that things were better in the past, .or that the authors favoured theories must have worked, need to be taken with some scepticism.

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