SWMS 210mgw Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Shotgun Wedding, Animal Husbandry, Industrial Revolution
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Where sexual reproduction falls on this timeline. One thing leads to another flips the script. Children have pure potential, are the catalysts for parents to clean up their lives. Not as much about economic mobile mobility, as the connected ideas of marriage and childbirth once were. Alternative set of values: doing the best i can with what i have left. Being there for, spending quality time with a child > providing financially. Shotgun wedding: father with a shotgun threatening a man who impregnated his daughter to marry his daughter and have a child in wedlock. After financial stability in a job and getting a stable monogamous serious relationship and completing education. Pre-industrial revolution: agricultural work, the whole family/home is involved in work. Industrial revolution: men are working 8-10 hour days, leaving the home for work. Separation of private home and public workspace.
