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	Responsibilities for raising children were often unlike the ''father as breadwinner, mother raises the children'' model that many people in the West today apparently perceive as the historical norm. The nuclear family is quite a new idea. Even in Western culture many people were involved in raising children in centuries past. For most of human history boys and girls alike would have spent a lot of time with their father as well as their mother as part of their daily activities. This was their upbringing. ''It takes a village to raise a child''.		Responsibilities for raising children were often unlike the ''father as breadwinner, mother raises the children'' model that many people in the West today apparently perceive as the historical norm. The nuclear family is quite a new idea. Even in Western culture many people were involved in raising children in centuries past. For most of human history boys and girls alike would have spent a lot of time with their father as well as their mother as part of their daily activities. This was their upbringing. ''It takes a village to raise a child''.
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 The '''Victorian fallacy''' describes the tendency of large proportions of western civilisation to equate the notion of ''history'' with the ''Victorian era'' or more recent history.  This generally results in women's rights being more restricted historically, relative to men of the same social class in the same society, than was actually generally the case.  The Victorian fallacy also results in a belief that historical societies were more prudish than they really were.
-== Imtimate Partner Violence ==
+== Intimate Partner Violence ==
 Until 1800 virtually all humans lived in villages.  Villages were close-knit and the men of the community would informally deal with any men suspected of [[wife-beating]].  As a result of industrialisation many villages were depopulated and people moved to the cities.  Without this sense of community the informal manner in which IPV was dealt with broke down.  Later the state stepped in to draft laws against IPV.  These laws, like the earlier informal approach, were overwhemingly targetted at men.

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		+	== Suffrage ==
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		+	In the UK land-owning women lost the right to vote in the [[Reform Act 1832]]. This right was regained starting in 1918.

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	The '''Victorian fallacy''' describes the tendency of large proportions of western civilisation to equate the notion of ''history'' with the ''Victorian era'' or more recent history. This generally results in women's rights being more restricted historically, relative to men of the same social class in the same society, than was actually generally the case. The Victorian fallacy also results in a belief that historical societies were more prudish than they really were.		The '''Victorian fallacy''' describes the tendency of large proportions of western civilisation to equate the notion of ''history'' with the ''Victorian era'' or more recent history. This generally results in women's rights being more restricted historically, relative to men of the same social class in the same society, than was actually generally the case. The Victorian fallacy also results in a belief that historical societies were more prudish than they really were.
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		+	== Imtimate Partner Violence ==
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		+	Until 1800 virtually all humans lived in villages. Villages were close-knit and the men of the community would informally deal with any men suspected of [[wife-beating]]. As a result of industrialisation many villages were depopulated and people moved to the cities. Without this sense of community the informal manner in which IPV was dealt with broke down. Later the state stepped in to draft laws against IPV. These laws, like the earlier informal approach, were overwhemingly targetted at men.

	== Women's Rights ==		== Women's Rights ==

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−	Assuming our species has been around for around 100,000 years, we have spent 90-100% of our time on this planet as hunter-gatherers (depending on region) and much of the rest of the time engaging in some form of agriculture. The concept of a house wife arose rather recently and represented women who did not have to engage in back-breaking agricultural or factory labour alongside their menfolk. The menfolk meanwhile kept at the back-breaking labour. Women have worked outside of the home in some form or other for most of human history. Originally they gathered and sometimes hunted, then they worked the land alongside their men and their children. Later a lot of them worked in factories, alongside their men and their children. Then eventually a few of them got to stay home while the men went out, mainly due to rising standards of living. Eventually this became common in some countries - we call them rich countries. Later the myth of the ''poor unfulfilled stay at home mother'' was born and the knowledge that this was in fact an historically privileged position was largely forgotten.

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 == Child Raising ==
-Responsibilities for raising children were often unlike the ''father as breadwinner, mother raises the children'' model that many people in the West today apparently perceive as the historical norm.  The nuclear family is quite a new idea. Even in Western culture many people were involved in raising children in centuries past.  For most of human history boys and girls alike would have spent a lot of time with their father as well as their mother as part of their daily activities.  This was their upbringing.  ''It takes a village to raise a child.
+Responsibilities for raising children were often unlike the ''father as breadwinner, mother raises the children'' model that many people in the West today apparently perceive as the historical norm.  The nuclear family is quite a new idea. Even in Western culture many people were involved in raising children in centuries past.  For most of human history boys and girls alike would have spent a lot of time with their father as well as their mother as part of their daily activities.  This was their upbringing.  ''It takes a village to raise a child''.
 Assuming our species has been around for around 100,000 years, we have spent 90-100% of our time on this planet as hunter-gatherers (depending on region) and much of the rest of the time engaging in some form of agriculture.  The concept of a house wife arose rather recently and represented women who did not have to engage in back-breaking agricultural or factory labour alongside their menfolk. The menfolk meanwhile kept at the back-breaking labour.  Women have worked outside of the home in some form or other for most of human history. Originally they gathered and sometimes hunted, then they worked the land alongside their men and their children. Later a lot of them worked in factories, alongside their men and their children. Then eventually a few of them got to stay home while the men went out, mainly due to rising standards of living. Eventually this became common in some countries - we call them rich countries.  Later the myth of the ''poor unfulfilled stay at home mother'' was born and the knowledge that this was in fact an historically privileged position was largely forgotten.

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 == Child Raising ==

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	== Sexuality ==		== Sexuality ==

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−	Cultures around the world and at different times have varied widely in their approach to female sexuality. Many cultures, including western Europe during the middle ages, have regarded female sexuality as stronger than male sexuality.

	== Child Raising ==		== Child Raising ==