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i doubt there was a stigma against abusing your kids. plenty of people still think beating your kids is fine.
by notfromhere 9y ago
i doubt there was a stigma against abusing your kids. plenty of people still think beating your kids is fine.
- dragonwriter 9y agoThere were probably always stigmas against abusing your kids, but cultural standards of "abuse" varied. That still is, in fact, the case: there's considerable conflict in today's society -- not just globally but even within, say, the US -- over what constitutes child abuse, where what one subculture calls "abuse" another will say is not only not abuse, but that its absence is "abuse".