Thus husbands are often heavily in debt to their wives, and the latter assume many of the financial responsibilities which should rightly belong to the men as fathers and family heads, such as finding bride-price for sons, paying for the children's educations, bearing the expenses of family fests, and the like. ... Some other possibilities as to the cause of this split among the men and women of the Nupe lie again in their lifestyle and beliefs (Nadel, 1952). ... (p. 25) Unlike the Nupe, European women accused of being witches were not successful, family women who had prominent car...

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During the mid to late 1800's, European public officials took note of a trend of some citizens focusing less on intercourse for family propagation and more as a form of simple pleasure. ... As in the post-Industrial Revolution days of Europe, many people migrated to big cities looking for work after the fall of the family farmer. ... People that already had homosexual feelings found themselves in a situation with other like-minded people, away from the ever watchful eye of judgmental families and churches. ... After receiving a dishonorable discharge, they were literally just dumped off a...

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