The unregulated Roman household was the central site of child corporal violence.
Evidence
The Roman state regulated the army, the courts, the senatorial procedure, the marketplace, and many other institutional settings substantially more than it regulated the paterfamilias’s daily practice in his own home. The result was that the household became, by operational outcome, the central site of Roman corporal violence against children — and the army, despite its cultural reputation, was a substantially less corporally violent institutional setting. — , The Rod and the Child, 2006
Categorization
- SEED: An essay angle: the least-regulated institutional space, not the most severe institution, concentrates violence against children — applies to modern homeschooling/private settings.
- XREF: connects to: Roman fathers exercised less actual power over children than law allowed — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 12347; Roman boys arrived at military service already habituated to corporal violence. — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 2003; Roman paternal authority operated against mothers with equal investment — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 2184
Related
- Roman boys arrived at military service already habituated to corporal violence. (similarity 0.83)
- Roman paternal authority operated against mothers with equal investment (similarity 0.83)
- Institutional structures, not ideology, determined severity of corporal practice (similarity 0.82)
- Roman fathers exercised less actual power over children than law allowed (similarity 0.82)
- Institutional accountability constrains violence exercised by authority figures. (similarity 0.80)
- Medieval Christian childhood was more corporally violent than late-Roman elite childhood (similarity 0.80)
- Institutional discipline correlates inversely with corporal violence. (similarity 0.80)
- Distributed daily violence can exceed concentrated formal punishment in severity. (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Roman fathers exercised less actual power over children than law allowed
#corroborates(0.70) — , The Rod and the Child, 12347 - Roman boys arrived at military service already habituated to corporal violence.
#expands(0.65) — , The Rod and the Child, 2003 - Roman paternal authority operated against mothers with equal investment
#complicates(0.55) — , The Rod and the Child, 2184