History of domestic violence abuser

Domestic violence or partner-on-partner violence is probably as old as the human race.

In 1655 Massachusetts Bay Colony in North America decreed ‘No man shall strike his wife nor any woman her husband’.

The punishment was a heavy fine or corporal punishment. This was one of the first laws in the Western World to ban domestic violence. It was also one of the first to recognize that both men and women can be violent to their partners.

It is a myth that in Britain a man had the right to hit his wife with a stick provided it was no thicker than his thumb.

History of domestic violence abuser

History of domestic violence abuser

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William Blackstone (1723-80) wrote Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-1769). He made no mention of a supposed rule that a stick could be used to hit your wife if it was not thicker than a thumb. So it was never a part of English common law.

However domestic violence was tolerated, to a certain extent at that time. A husband also had a legal duty to support his wife. The husband was also responsible for his wife’