Lydia

“I remember that some don’t believe that parents have authority over children. My understanding at present is that they do. What do you think? A parent can exercise authority humbly, for the good of the child, and at great sacrificial cost to the parent.”

Just for the record, as an egal I most definitely believe a parent has authority over children. It is just that an adult woman is not a child and her husband is not her parent. That is the difference. If one thinks the husband has authority over the wife, that is making her a perpetual child and the husband her ‘daddy’. It can get quite sick. I saw the fruit of this thinking for years in comp circles.