Social Attitudes
The clergy could now be married, reducing illegitimate births although there is little if any evidence illegitimacy was mainly fueled by unmarried clergy. Women's voices in the Reformation were mostly suppressed with their writings destroyed because of the edict in the Bible for women to be silent.
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