Marriage and Family—The Ideals (Part 2)

Pastoral living tended to create a new system of mores, the patriarchal type of family life.  Under the herder and early agricultural mores, the basis of family unity was the unquestioned and arbitrary authority of the father.  But although man was woman’s superior on the battlefield and in the hunt, at home woman has usually outgeneraled even the most primitive of men. 

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