I was actually getting a weird impression from that book. The primary reason laws and institutions are indeed increasingly aware of and trying to deal with spousal abuse is not that it gets more noticed today, but because it actually does happen more than in the past where communal pressure could have worked against it.
Casual assumptions that things were better in the past, .or that the authors favoured theories must have worked, need to be taken with some scepticism.
Is that based with figures?
Nope, TD is an essayist.
Casual assumptions that things were better in the past, .or that the authors favoured theories must have worked, need to be taken with some scepticism.