What John Stuart Mill thinks about family

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Philosopher (1806 to 1873), a utilitarian and liberal; worked for the East India Company for almost thirty-five years; elected Member of Parliament for Westminster in 1865.

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4 dated positions, c. 1861–1869, in their own words. Our reading of what John Stuart Mill has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. c. 1861–1869

   Our readingThe family is a school of despotism that nourishes both its virtues and its vices

   Their wordsThe family is a school of despotism, in which the virtues of despotism, but also its vices, are largely nourished.

   ↗The Subjection of Women (1869)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book

3. c. 1861–1869

   Our readingWomen's exclusion from other occupations is probably kept up only to maintain their subordination at home

   Their wordsI believe that their disabilities elsewhere are only clung to in order to maintain their subordination in domestic life; because the generality of the male sex cannot yet tolerate the idea of living with an equal.

   ↗The Subjection of Women (1869)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book

5. c. 1861–1869

   Our readingMarriage is the only real bondage left in English law

   Their wordsMarriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.

   ↗The Subjection of Women (1869)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book

7. c. 1861–1869

   Our readingMarriage between equals in powers and capacities is the only ideal of marriage, and other notions are relics of barbarism

   Their wordsBut I maintain, with the profoundest conviction, that this, and this only, is the ideal of marriage; and that all opinions, customs, and institutions which favour any other notion of it, or turn the conceptions and aspirations connected with it into any other direction, by whatever pretences they may be coloured, are relics of primitive barbarism.

   ↗The Subjection of Women (1869)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book