(Poll created August 18, 2010)
Submitted by editor

In the United States, at what point was it no longer the law that wives were considered the legal property of their husband?

NY Times article

They're Not?
(27)
She's still owned by the state
(3)
When Laurena Bobbitt cast her passing vote on the RESPECT ME NOW act.
(3)
Since Ewomancipation Proclamation Day
(1)
That was never the law in the United States
(102)
With the passage of the Bill of Rights
(9)
With the passage of the 14th amendement after the civil war
(18)
During World War 1
After women got the right to vote in 1920 under Woodrow Wilson
(10)
During WW2 when women started working in the mills
(4)
With the passage of the Civil Rights act of 1964
(1)
With the Roe vs Wade decision in 1973
(2)
With the invention of the Birth Control Pill
(2)
With the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment
(4)
With the introduction of no fault divorce
After OJ Simpson's civil trial.
(1)
That's an issue for each State to decide for itself
(4)
With the passage of gay marriage
(1)
That's still the law
(6)
Realists know husbands are the property of their wives
(26)
Husbands and wives legally own each other
(7)
When a woman marries, she ceases to be a person
(6)
Around 1984, according to the NY Times story

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