Large Extended Families In The 1700's

Women and children did not have equal rights as men, but they proved to be prosperous in the eighteenth-century. The household economy supposed that family was the center of economic life. They believed that most labor revolved around the household and that all family members should assist to the family’s income. Both genders were seen equally in the eighteenth-century. The independent family farms relied on the labor of children and women. If the labor was not being performed the farm would receive no income. Farmers focused on owning enough land so they could pass it along to their sons. The death rate decreased and population increased because marriages became lifelong commitments. All families had one goal and that was to maintain the farm

Running a family and looking after children was an "all day" work. It normally included cleaning, planning and cooking the dinners, canning and packaging the homestead create, and accommodating all needs of the spouse and youngsters. According to the article, Roles and Education: Changing Traditions in Population Planning, Vaughn states “Kids were instructed their parts when exceptionally youthful. Young men were demonstrated to cultivate and accommodate in their future families ' needs. They went to class where they were educated the fundamentals alongside being acquainted with profession choices. Advanced education was accessible.” Young ladies figured

Early in the 1800’s the father was the head of the household and this included the children. Nurturing was not in consideration but needing help with labor and the farm was a necessity. Children were viewed as property and and had very little rights. In the 1800’s, Caroline Norton, who just recently divorced and was deprived of her children, began to work feverishly for women to have

After marriage, the husband was considered lord and master of the family. But not all the women were meek and submissive. By the 1700's, the woman’s status had rapidly improved in colonial America. A wife and child made as much as a man did. Although women did not have equality with men, their status greatly improved from their status in Europe. A woman’s station in life was determined by the position of their husbands or fathers. The women of the poorest families, compiled to work in the fields, stood at the bottom of the social ladder. One of the surest signs of the accomplishments a family had made, was the exemption of their women from the fields. Before 1740, girls were trained in household crafts and the practical arts of family management. But afterwards they began to study subjects that required reading and studying such subjects as grammer and arithmetic. The women of the upper classes occupied themselves mainly with planning the work of the home and with supervising the domestic servants. Along with these tasks the women also baked, nursed, and sewed. But there were many social restrictions placed on the women of that time. One such restriction was that a wife, in absence of her husband, was not allowed to lodge men even if they were close relatives. For

Many of the families that had children working had not much choice in allowing their kids to do so. One person or even two people working wouldn’t have been enough to support a whole family. Most of the children employed during this time period were working to provide income to their families. “As soon as a little

“Rich married when they were teenagers. Poor women worked from a really early age. They were treated as adults from age 11 and they married at age 20” (C N). Once again, women didn’t get to choose what they wanted to do someone or something decided for them. In this case it would be their wealth that decided it for them. Women in the early ages had to grow up faster than we do today. Today, 20 is pretty young to get married, and some woman in the early ages got married before then. After they were married it only got worse. “Marriage often plunged a woman into being an estate manager. Marriage among landowners was arranged. Women then not only had to take care of her land, but her husband’s as well” (Dean 61). Before marriage women had to do inside work for her family and sometimes work in the fields, but once she got married, she had to take care of her own house and not only her fields but her husband’s as well. Women didn’t even get to pick who they married most of the time because it was arranged. “Women weren’t allowed to marry without parents consent. They weren’t allowed to own a business, get a divorce, or own property unless they widowed, and they couldn’t inherit land if they didn’t have brothers” (C N). So, a woman’s parent also got to choose what went on in a woman’s life and how she

There was a very different scene in the household of American families. During the early 1800s, a woman’s life consisted of many obligations and few choices. Women were pretty much controlled by the men in their life, their fathers, brothers, and husbands. The life would consist of finding a husband, reproducing, and then spending the rest of their lives helping the family in the house. In fact, when women became married, legally all of her inheritance and belongings would belong to her husband.

women had to stay at home to take care of young ones in the 1700s-1800s

This paper will discuss the differences between families from the 1960’s and the families of today. There are many differences between the different times. I have focused on the parentage portion of the families. I explained what the ideal family is and how it is different today. I’ve also included ways that will help these families of today become stronger as a family.

Family relations started to weaken during the second revolution in America and New England because with new employment opportunities for women, men and children in New England and America, families had the ability to become free or separate from each other, move away, or have an employment in which their gender or age might not have otherwise allowed today. “In short, the Industrial Revolution in early America created a standard of hard work, individuality, and in some cases, an equal amount of importance dedicated to career and family.”

What was expected of the female children was vastly different than what was expected of the adults. Unlike most cultures where the boys attend school and the girls learn housework, it is believed that neither attended school. Instead, boy’s learned men’s work and girls did work alongside the females in their life. They learned to cook, garden, and take care of domestic animals and make clothing. By the time the females are ready to marry at the expected ages,

Before the Industrial Revolution, there were many hard times for families. All of this changed when the Industrial Revolution happened. Women

In the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century of England, the Industrial Revolution occurred. It is marked as an important movement in history because it introduced steam-driven machinery, large factories, and a new working class. With new manufacturing, job opportunities opened up. As the demand for employees rose, that is when the working class also began to rise. However, it not only included adults but children as well. The main reason for children to work is because it benefits the employers and their families economically. Employers made profit by having children work for low wages, and the money the children made would go towards the family income and necessities to survive. The low adult wages would not suffice for a neutral family or extended, so children had no choice but to work and help support their family. Although in need of money, there were too many dangers involved when the children were working. As a result of this, the state legislation had Acts passed for the children’s safety. The Industrial Revolution had many upsides in modernizing England, but it also uncovered that children should not be seen as workers needing money, but as young human beings that need education and protection, and the only way to initiate this is with the involvement of the state.

In the book, Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Carla L. Peterson gives her view of the word family. Carla’s main focus on the word “Family” was how family has evolved from the American colonial period onward. She mentions how in the earlier periods, home and the workplace were together. “‘Family’ derives from the Latin famulus, meaning servant, and familia, meaning household.”(Peterson 113). How come it derived from the Latin word for servant? Children were more crucial in a family’s establishment than they are today, in a way that they were expected to contribute to family income. Even though, ever since I was 10 years old, I would help my dad with yard work around the house, every Sunday he edges the bushes and the grass while I

Family structure in the United States has undergone a dramatic change since the 1960's. The percentage of female-headed households increased while the percentage of married couple households declined. This paper uses data from the Urban Underclass Database to explain the roles the transforming economy (from manufacturing to service) and the subsequent employment dislocation play in the family structure change. Results for the largest 100 cities in the United States find support for a relationship between changes in the economy, subsequent male unemployment, and family