Qin law protected children’s lives earlier than Roman law did.

Evidence

This is — and I want to flag this clearly — Qin law was, in this specific respect, more protective of children’s lives than contemporary Roman law. Two centuries before the Romans first began eroding the paterfamilias’s right of life-and-death, the Qin had already eroded it. The Confucian and Mohist philosophical traditions that operated on top of this Qin legal substrate did not have to argue about whether parents should be allowed to kill their children. That argument was already settled. Parents could not. The state would prosecute. — , The Rod and the Child, 1043

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Roman patria potestas material referenced and to the book’s thesis across episodes. — connects to: Qin law operationalized age-of-capacity two millennia before Anglo-American law. — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 1047; Irish Brehon fosterage law protected children’s bodies earlier than any Continental European code — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 1322

Related

• Qin law operationalized age-of-capacity two millennia before Anglo-American law. (similarity 0.86)
• Irish Brehon fosterage law protected children’s bodies earlier than any Continental European code (similarity 0.84)
• Qin law anchored China’s low corporal-punishment profile for two millennia. (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Irish Brehon fosterage law protected children’s bodies earlier than any Continental European code #responds-to (0.75) — , The Rod and the Child, 1322