ANTA02H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: William Graham Sumner, Patrilocal Residence, Social Fact
Document Summary
In the early-mid 1900s the family was considered a cultural authority. Mothers were drawing upon scientific knowledge to learn how to raise children to appropriate to. Western culture"s idea of a modern mother and possibly due to the shrinking number of kin for females to draw knowledge from. Home economics became professionalized and turned into a science as emotions were stripped from it. Between the 30-50s, 33 children under the age of 6 were lent to the university of. Manitoba where the babies where mothered by alternating women in a practice house. A practice house was a place, typically in universities for family education programs, where females would group together to experience the life of a mother of that time frame. The spockian style of child rearing became popular during the war time, however is currently ignored due to its anecdotal evidence through psychoanalysis. As high child mortality rates resolved, focus on pediatrics and child-raising advice became popular.
