SOCIOL 2PP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Infant Mortality, Nuclear Family, Married People
14 Nov 2017
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Industrialization began in england in early 19th century: looking at families in pre-industrial times gives us a point of comparison for understanding family life and gender relations death & birth records/letters) Myths about pre-industrial society: social historians based information on surviving documents (cid:523)people"s wills, In most pre-industrial families, they didn"t follow the 3 generations: myth that it was usually 3 generations living under the same roof. More generations were only seen among people who could afford a the norm was the nuclear family big household. Parents did love their children but the reality was high infant mortality. They sent infants to (cid:498)wet nurses(cid:499) that would breastfeed their babies, Children were frequently sent to live in other peoples homes. Women would swaddle an infant in a blanket and hang them up on leading to high infant mortality hooks on the wall so they could work freely in the home. Families felt a strong sense of responsibility for their blood relatives.
