There are two main types of control over family income: The allowance system, and Pooling.
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Card 28
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The reason why men are more likely to make final and more important decisions is because they earn more. women who earn less than their husbands are made economically dependent on them and so have less say.
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Card 29
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Cite examples of wives being slapped, pushed about, beaten, ***** or killed by their husbands.
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Card 30
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Marriage legitimates violence against women by conferring power and authority on husbands and dependency on wives.
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Many social policies assume that the ideal family is the patriarchal nuclear family.
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Even where some policies appear to support women, they still reinforce the patriarchal family and act as a form of social control over women.
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In the middle ages, the idea of childhood did not exist.
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Card 34
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High death rates encouraged indifference and neglect, especially towards infants.
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It is more correct to say that in the middle ages, society simply had a different notion of childhood today.
