Re:A shift in American family values is fueling estrangement
by dktoao on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @02:28PM
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I think they meant that their examples are things that would have been "shoved under the rug" or hidden in the past and are no longer taboo. If you were gay in 1900 you hid it, if you are gay in 2020 you are out (usually). Abuse may consist of a lot of things, but using physical abuse as an example. If you beat your kids (more than just spanking) in 1900 it was still taboo (but maybe less so)
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Re:A shift in American family values is fueling estrangement
by vkou on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @02:40PM
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I think your view of the past is colored by 21-st century social norms.
In 1900, a husband beating his wife wasn't even illegal in most of the world. [1] Beating children and other animals would barely even register as unusual.
[1] It wasn't practically illegal in most of the US, both on the state & federal level until the late 20th century - https://www.cji.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/domestic_abus...
Re:A shift in American family values is fueling estrangement
by dash2 on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @05:53PM
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But beating your kids or wife - again, in the "more than just spanking" sense of physical abuse - was often punished informally. Working-class communities had clear senses of the relevant boundaries (though again those wouldn't be the same as our boundaries necessarily) and institutions like the Charivari to support them. (Google "Rough music".)