Law 4 said if a child is deformed he can be killed.
Law 5 said that women need to be guarded.
Law 6 said that is a women live together for a year then they are considered married and the woman is treated as the man daughter.
Law 10 said that women cant cry at funerals.
Law 11 said that a patrician and a plebeian can't be married.
The Romans only allowed their children to live if they are without birth defects. This means they didn't value every child's life. The Romans treated women as if they belonged to the men and they could be controlled.
Primary source:
THE TWELVE TABLES. Web. 5 Mar. 2010. http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/12tables.html.
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