HDFS202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Family Affairs, Middle Colonies, Parenting
30 Mar 2016
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Poorer people sent their children to wealthier households to work as servants or to learn a trade; Some people also came to new world as indentured servants free passage for work; Many households had people who were not kin-servants, apprentices. The puritans (protestant colonists) believed each family was a little commonwealth . European colonists: primacy of the publice family. No room for privacy or private lives. Houses not designed for privacy - public. Households were closely linked to one another and very dependent on each other for cooperation and economic exchanges; Men migrated west and began new family. Women were not supposed to be educated: First gov of mass: if she had attended her household affairs and not gone to meddle in the affairs of men whose minds are stronger, she"d have kept her wits and might have improved them. Infant and child mortality rates were high. 10-30% of children died before reaching age of one.
