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What will be an ideal response?
Domination of men over women and children has had a strong historical foundation under the social system of patriarchy. Some believe that the inequality of the sexes is the foundation for the assumption of male superiority and the foundation for intimate partner violence. By allowing husbands the right to punish wayward wives, the system gave a rationale to male brutality against women.
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