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Originally Posted by junqueyardjim
Maybe we have no record of a "marriage", but I bet most of them were fathers. Most of them I think. Does that mean they didn't want to rule over women? I wouldn't want to guess on that one.
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I know Augustine and Descartes had kids out of wedlock but I don't think either were involved in the raising of those children or in the ruling of their mothers in a family. I'm not aware that any of the others fathered children. I think it's also worthy of note that both Hume and Smith were raised by their mothers, without a father. Don't know about the others.
I think part of this thought may have been spurred by a conversation with my dad last week about being a parent. I came to parenting later in life and one of the big problems I see in it, is the tendency of a child to accept the authority of the parent. I think it's pretty easy for a parent/child to buy into the whole business of authority as a result of this experience.