It’s a wonder the writer didn’t say the wife should gladly submit to a beating by her spouse. It wasn’t until 1920 that wife beating was illegal in all States.
I saw a survey where one out of three women have been abused or forced into sex by someone they know.
Physical violence is only one part of domestic abuse: abusers often use other means like isolation, threats to family members and pets, controlling of personal finances and psychological abuse to hurt their victims.
I’ll stop as I’m going off into a rant. I know men have been subjected to the same violence.
Yes men have had the same treatment but very rarely. Yes I know, I'm all too familiar with dozens of forms of abuse. That is such an interesting statistic you stated though, about it not being illegal to beat your wife until 1920! Wow. That tells you how backward and primitive we were back then!