HNRS 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Fetus, Prolactin, Baby Talk
27 Sep 2016
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A major source of a father"s power was his ownership and control of all family property as well as his role in the marriages of his children. It was a man"s duty to provide the physical necessities for his children and to train them for their life"s work. A father was charged with the moral and spiritual growth of his children. Both parents treated the sons and daughters as the mother"s children in early life. Around the age of 3, fathers began to tutor their children in morals. Father-son relationship was neither explosive nor intimate. Men may have expressed their emotions more freely to their daughters than their sons. At the same time traditional patriarchal ideas declined, a new notion of womanhood emerged; a belief that women were inherently moral, more spiritual, and more tender than men. The emergence of modern fatherhood (1800 - 1880) The middle class father was less of a presence in the home.
