take: the structure of the nuclear family as an authority parallels monotheism; the two are inextricable if so, then nuclear family : monotheism :: institutional/governmental child-rearing : ???
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Did he act as a pedagogical or day-to-day authority in his childrens' life, though? There is a distinction between a legally-granted but otherwise psychologically absent authority and the child's internalization of phenomenological authority.
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Depends on the family My hunch is that paternal involvement was more present in small households than aristocratic where tutors and slaves handled many aspects of childrearing but the authority of the father would've been manifest in either case
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