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Proper Punishment for a Disobedient Wife
« on: September 27, 2013, 12:08:10 PM »
What should the proper punishment be for a disobedient wife?  I'm not talking about one that has committed adultery, but rather one that flouts her husband's authority in other matters.  Should the husband beat her?  Should the husband refuse to permit her to leave the family home?  In a Catholic society, should the courts punish her?
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Proper Punishment for a Disobedient Wife
« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2013, 12:44:36 PM »
It is a matter for the confessional.

Men shouldn't be "punishing" their wives, rather getting to the root of the problem or faults for BOTH parties and trying to resolve the issue through prayer and the sacraments.

I can understand that for certain things, perhaps it would be prudent to make changes such as to how money is handled, friendships, getting rid of certain hindrances depending on the circuмstances. They shouldn't be viewed as punishment but rather an aid to helping the wife get to heaven.
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Proper Punishment for a Disobedient Wife
« Reply #2 on: September 27, 2013, 01:35:36 PM »
She would probably kill you, which would bring undue stress on her (she'd need to go to Confession, pick out a suit for your burial, fill out forms to collect life insurance).
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Proper Punishment for a Disobedient Wife
« Reply #3 on: September 27, 2013, 01:38:23 PM »
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What should the proper punishment be for a disobedient wife?  I'm not talking about one that has committed adultery, but rather one that flouts her husband's authority in other matters.  Should the husband beat her?  Should the husband refuse to permit her to leave the family home?  In a Catholic society, should the courts punish her?


A husband should never "beat" his wife, just as he should never "beat" his children.

But as a mild physical reprimand is certainly sometimes necessary for children, there is no reason why - from a Catholic point of view - it should not also be permissible for wives on (hopefully) very rare occassions.

The husband - not the wife - is head of the whole household (children and wife). In addition to being priest and king of his house, he is also administer of justice (and has been made by God physically stronger than wife and child for this reason, in part). If he is being unjustly opposed by his wife, and a moderate physical rebuke will suffice to correct her (all other avenues having been exhausted), there is no (non modernist) reason why it should be considered beyond the pale.
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Proper Punishment for a Disobedient Wife
« Reply #4 on: September 27, 2013, 01:42:20 PM »
Hmmm...    :detective:


‘The old custom of beating a walnut-tree was carried out firstly to fetch down the fruit and secondly to break the long shoots and so encourage the production of short fruiting spurs’: M. Hadfield British Trees (1957) Cf. L. nux, asinus, mulier verbere opus habent, a nut tree, an ass, and a woman need a beating.

I have redde, I know not where, these verses. A woman, an asse, and a walnut tree, Bring the more fruit the more beaten they bee.
[1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo's Civil Conversation iii. 20]


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