SOSC 1350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: White Ribbon Campaign, Bertha Wilson, Legal Personality
23 Oct 2015
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A case study of the canadian shelter system. Ph. d. student, social and political thought, york university. Some victims are rejected because of the lack of space. Police involved in physical violence press charges even if the wife doesn"t want to press charges because the man is a threat to public safety. Violence of women impact children severely (children being taken away, negative impact on the children"s behaviour such as swearing and beating other children) The husband hath, by law, power and dominion over his wife, and may keep her by force within the bounds of duty, and may beat her, but not in a violent manner. The law historically sanctioned the abuse of women within marriage as an aspect of the husband"s ownership of his wife and his right to chastise her. One need only recall the centuries-old law that a man is entitled to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb.
