If, on the other hand, the child is not legitimate, the putative father is tricked into lavishing care upon a child with whom he has no biological connection. Hence the discovery of fatherhood led to the subjection of women as the only means of securing their virtue - a subjection first physical and then mental, which reached its height in the Victorian age.
Source: Bertrand Russell :Marriage and Morals, 1929
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