FHCE 3000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Child Labour, Coverture, Great Depression

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Financial Planning, Housing and Consumer Economics
• Course: FHCE 3000
• Professor: Dr.Kabaci

Document Summary

Families live out histories of their own while participating actively in the larger arenas of national and international history. There is ultimately little historical space that family does not impinge upon. Religious and social groups had different forms of familial bonds: polygyny - multiple wives, larger hhs meant increase in children and wealth. Work no longer centered in the home. Family consisted of a husband, wife, biological children and extended family except in the case of slaves. Husbands managers and providers in the family. Against the law to live together or have children out of wedlock. Wo(cid:373)a(cid:374)"s role i(cid:374) the fa(cid:373)ily still defi(cid:374)ed (cid:271)y her hus(cid:271)a(cid:374)d. Government regulation of some aspects of childhood. Child labor and schooling: compulsory school attendance laws, child labor restrictions, playgrounds, wido(cid:449)"s pe(cid:374)sio(cid:374) to per(cid:373)it poor (cid:272)hildre(cid:374) to re(cid:373)ai(cid:374) with their mothers. Family became even more important source of happiness and satisfaction. Companionate family was envisioned as a more isolated and more important unit.