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The Father Is Me: when the State Undermines Parental Authority - The Incorrect

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Under the Roman Republic, the father's patria potestas, or "paternal power", took the right of life or death over each of his descendants. Of course, the rigor of this archaic right, which was not compatible with the social order of a real city, had already fallen into disuse for a long time after the advent of the Empire. However, the idea had remained, until the French Revolution, of total control of the parents over their children, within the…
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Under the Roman Republic, the father's patria potestas, or "paternal power", took the right of life or death over each of his descendants. Of course, the rigor of this archaic right, which was not compatible with the social order of a real city, had already fallen into disuse for a long time after the advent of the Empire. However, the idea had remained, until the French Revolution, of total control of the parents over their children, within the…

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lincorrect.org broke the news in on Tuesday, June 17, 2025.
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