What else would you call not allowing a woman her own bank account? That colors the laws from being protective to controlling, dont you think?
That example could be another example of being relative. Men were considered the representative of the household and the wife. That was the culture of patriarchy. It could be a problem if your hypothesis that all aspects within the marriage were dominated and dictated by unjust and abusive men was true, but if the whole culture is built off the notion that men were representatives of the wife and the family then it doesn't quite match the reality you are attempting to paint. Its just a system, but it doesnt mean the system is oppressive or unfair by design.
Which law are you referring to exactly in regards to the bank account? Feminists know all these laws like the back of their hand ready to pull them out to paint their picture of male domination and mistreatment of women.
Do you mean single women weren't allowed their own bank account? Look you disagree that such a system heavily emphasized men as a womans sufficiency rather than being in control of their own finances and that is your right to do so, but don't say that method is outright oppressive. You are comparing two very different times together, the nature of the labor was diff from how it is today. By default most of them wanted children and by default a husband is needed for that so by default a caretaker of the home is needed. Many of the laws and customs are going to be built off of this reality. A single woman desiring to be single would have been the minority. Systems of law are always deficient/incomplete in matters dealing with minorities cause cases involving them are usually peculiar and bizarre territory.
Here I would put the same thought anti-feminist men use: post-Industrial revolution work culture was designed to split the family by enslaving the breadwinner. Do you think men play a less significant role in the upbringing of their children? Even if the men were the ones working, it makes no sense to bar women from the potential for financial freedom. Single women still existed.
Umm... Most women sought after children and a husband which again, placed a need for one parent to provide these hands on caretaker responsibilities.
Not to mention given the nature of the work in patriarch times I don't think too many women complained about caretaker functions. I mean there weren't exactly too many secretary and office jobs back then or jobs that accommodate a persons comfortability. There was no AC room to sit in. Do you even think most women if given the choice would have wanted to go out and work allot of these jobs for financial freedom if given the choice between that and raising their own children? Maybe this financial freedom limitation actually saved allot of women who simply could not do allot of the jobs that were needed at the time and there was a shortage of jobs that women could perform so not all women would have been able to work women's jobs. They would have been stuck doing jobs associated with men. Maybe these limitations encouraged them a means of proficiency through a husband though you just dont like that idea.... There is allot of context you just simply wont apply to these discussions. Maybe in allot of these instances a woman being stuck with a man was simply the best way for her proficiency given the nature of the work at some times or a shortage of needed jobs. There are allot of variables... If I set up laws giving financial freedom to a class where jobs are in short supply allot of people wont have jobs, because of short supply.... which means they need another means of proficiency.
If I make laws however that emphasize another means of proficiency like marriage this person can now be proficient and the persons survivability is increased. Maybe that is why these "said" limitations were set on women and work, because it encouraged something unrealistic and an outcome that may not have always favored a women's chance at being sufficient in and of herself.
But, again... Between taking care of their kids and working out in the elements what do you think most women preferred? Between possibly not having a job cause of shortages and having no means to survive to having a chance to survive, but under the house of someone else what are you going to choose? The system may have not been perfect, but maybe it had been better than a bunch of jobless men and women with no means to survive.
Dude. Did you forget the part where the court rules in favour of which parent gets custody? Better yet, provide us with some stats of how many women are actively keeping their kids away from their fathers please.
Yeah 80 percent of the time its women, because its determined they are more fit caretakers. There is no real basis other than this.
Btw, seeking custody isn't considered a means of separating kids from their father? The father should just be grateful he gets weekends? Wow how compassionate