Thou : The Target Audience of the Ten Commandments

I was reading in Exodus recently and I read the Ten Commandments. Here I had an insight and understood something that had escaped my notice up to now: The Ten Commandments are addressed to a specific audience. 

To whom are the Ten Commandments addressed?

It is not immediately evident. However, for starters, we can tell that the Ten Commandments are addressed to a single person, at least, grammatically they are addressed an individual:

20:2 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 

20:3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

The pronouns "thou", "thee", and "thy" all refer to a single person. If plural were intended, "ye", "you" and "your" would have been used.

The LORD would address all of Israel as "thou" in the sense that all of Israel united was His son, His child. But in verse 10 we get the real clue who the target audience of the Ten Commandments is:

20:10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates.

So what are we told here about the target audience of these commandments at this point?

This person, the target audience, has 

a son

a daughter

a manservant

a maidservant

cattle

maybe strangers (foreigners, visitors)

The first two descriptive clauses seal the identification: The target audience is a parent (thy son, thy daughter). Because the Hebrew verbal forms that accompany "thou", unlike English, convey gender, the Hebrew forms of "thou shalt" are clearly masculine singular. So the target audience appears to be a father.

But what or who is missing?

But notice what we are not told: "thy wife". What man ever became a father but by a woman? And what is the only form of union that The Lord commanded of His children? Marriage in the Temple (originally the Garden of Eden) for all eternity.

So where was the woman? In Hebrew The Lord would address the married couple as if they were a single being, because they were meant to be "one flesh". To be fully informative, it is true that The Lord would also address couples in the plural ("ye") and addressed Israel in the plural ("ye"), but the singular seems to have been used to convey the intended "oneness" and unity. Might this not be the reason that "thou" is used here, to convey the idea that man and woman are one, married in His covenant, and this unity, husband and wife, are to raise their children and even their servants (to some extent cattle) and foreign sojourners to keep the commandments of The Lord? 

So in short: The target audience of the Ten Commandments is a married couple, husband and wife, a man and a woman, bonded in the unity of the covenant of God, and this couple, this unity, is to convey the commandments to their children and raise the children to serve The Lord. 

Pretty sweet, no? The Lord's ways really do build up the family. The Lord's ways really do restore balance to any soul who will receive them. The Proclamation on the Family really is a modern reaffirmation of eternal truths.

I understand that readers may diverge from what I have posted. I only ask that the reader bear in mind that the passages cited are actually textual.

Have a blessed day!