If only the United States had this rule for Quinn around 2004...
SOURCE - "A wooden bat: not exactly the first thing to come to mind when you think "wedding gift," but that is indeed the wedding gift that hundreds of new brides in India recently received from the state minister of Madhya Pradesh.
The actual purpose of the 15-inch-long, paddle-shaped bats is to beat dirt out of clothes at a laundry, but the minister instructed the brides to use them to beat their husbands should the men become abusive or alcoholic."