Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Science of Culture, Vol. 4
Until the middle of the nineteenth century legal guardianship for unmarried women existed in most of the countries of Europe. Even in America chaperons were almost universal for young women. The chaperonage was almost as much Of a nuisance to the parents as to the young girls, although not to such an extent as among the Papuans of Torres Straits, Where parents killed their daughters on the ground that they would be kept awake at night by suitors if they were allowed to survive.
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