Roman dads?

Question

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Answer 1

Well, they were fathers.

They also exercised, theoretically, absolute power over their wives and families, but this was not as harsh as it sounds, because the majority of them probably never did this in practice.

In actuality, as Rome grew, things became more equitable for Roman women and children.  By the late Republic, women were free to buy and sell property and the old accolade of the Roman wife who "stayed at home and spun wool" was pretty much a thing of the past, at least among the upper crust.  

There were two traditional forms of marriage among patricians:  the first was a long, complicated thing that, in essence, made divorce nearly impossible.  The other form made it quite easy--so much so that it was said that there were women who had been divorced and remarried so many times that they counted the years not by who was consul at the time, but by who they were married to at that juncture.

Among the lower classes and country folk, there was a form of marriage that was for a length of time--say a year--and if either party was unhappy they could simply dissolve it by spending three successive nights away from the joint abode.  If they were happy, the 'contract' (for lack of a better term) could be renewed for another year or whatever.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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