During this time period, a person (usually a husband) could simply commit their wife to an asylum with no proof of actual illness and no due process. Here in Kentucky, there was a recent move to make a law that would allow some one to be committed in essentially the same way. Fortunately, it was defeated. That it could even be considered scared the hell out of most of us. The "law" was to be "for their own good." People to be committed would have had little to no say about it. This of course was thought up by "well meaning" "concerned" citizens who want to get homeless persons off the streets (out of sight, out of mind) and into shelters where they could be "helped." They did not consider the ramifications of the law. Anyone could be committed under this law - inconvenient spouses, business partners, children, heirs to estates
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I know regression is America's general direction right now (until enough people get ticked off) but that's unbelievable. So glad to hear that it didn't go anywhere, but who the heck wrote it and thought it was a good idea. Ugh.
Well meaning liberals who think they know what's better for everyone than anyone else can possibly know for themselves. They have the best of intentions but seem to rarely consider the total ramifications of their "good intentions." And of course, we know where good intentions often lead.
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