FAMILY MATTERS

Question 1

renaissance

Answer 1

arragned marriages
birth rates high due to high infant mortality
woman’s main role is child bearer
marriage among elites is high

Question 2

reformation

Answer 2

family life becomes norm (incrase status of wives, no celibate option for women)
incrase in status of women

Question 3

18th century

Answer 3

• population rate increase (declien in death rates, agricutlra revolution and new crops)
• more women get marriaged (more oppoutnities, shift to wage labor over inherited land maeans younger sons can gathe resoures to support family)
• marraige age goes up (need to gather resource fo ffamily, declienin fant mortality means younger brides no longer crucial)

Question 4

early 19th century (industrial revolution)

Answer 4

birthrates continue to decline

• populaiton continues to incrase due to declining death rate
• improved food supply
• declienin diseases
• death rates exceed birth rate

Question 5

late 19th century (secon dindsutrial revolution)

Answer 5

-birthrates increase 
(improved wages so they can stay home) 
-overal pouplation increase (public hygiene measures, vaccination) 
-population become more urban 
-emigration

Question 6

family trends in late 19th century (secon dindsutrial revolution)

Answer 6

• continued to decline birth rate

- middle class cult of domesticity (woman’s place is home)

Question 7

ideas about family in 18th century

Answer 7

-chilhood seens as seperate phase in life due to declien in infant morality
-birthrates decline (birth control)
-special childclothes
-women and children are important (facotry workers or working on farm)
UPPER CLASS

Question 8

20th century after WWII

Answer 8

-1950s baby boom
-end of 50s, birthrates go down (birthr control)
-1960s (divorce rates goes up)
-1990s, birthrates are dropping below repalement level
declinign trends in poulation