sampler-request@lmboyd.com wrote:

====================================================== The Laws of the Twelve Tables in ancient Rome -- dating from about 450 B.C. -- permitted a father to imprison his children, chain them, whip them, sell them into slavery, or kill them. Not just when they were young. Even after they grew up. Even after they went into politics. Even after they attained high office. Nowhere else in western history has there been anything quite like that patriarchal system. ==============================================

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