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Title: 18th Century Society


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18th Century Society
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Marriage and Family
  • Prior to 1750
  • Nuclear family
  • Young married couples lived away from parents
  • Marriage age higher
  • Late 20s or older for both men and women
  • Self-support
  • Permission or approval of local lord or landowner
  • Austria and Germany
  • Fear of poverty and abandoned children
  • THIS PATTERN MAINTAINED SOME BALANCE BETWEEN
    POPULATION AND RESOURCES

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Marriage and Family
  • Prior to 1750
  • Children
  • Out of wedlock birth rates low
  • Powerful social control
  • Premarital sex limited to couples already
    thinking about marriage
  • Infant mortality rates
  • New Patterns after 1750
  • Growth of cottage industry increased income
  • Resulted in higher rates of marriage for love
  • Financial independence
  • Arranged marriages declined
  • Law and regulations ignored

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Marriage and Family
  • New Patterns after 1750
  • Population explosion
  • Increased illegitimacy
  • Mobility
  • Open rebellion
  • Women in cities
  • Not motivated by emancipation and sexual
    liberation
  • Marriage was escape from hard life
  • Attitudes toward children
  • Child care and nursing
  • Poorer women
  • Breast feeding
  • Spaced births
  • Infants more likely to survive

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Marriage and Family
  • Attitudes toward children
  • Child care and nursing
  • Poorer women
  • Women of aristocracy and upper-middle class
  • Seldom breast fed children
  • Hired wet-nurses
  • Killing nurses
  • Infanticide
  • Rampant due to severe poverty
  • Foundling hospitals emerged, first in Paris then
    throughout Europe
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