(Poll created August 18, 2010)
Submitted by editor

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

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