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A family is and always will be important to almost all cultures. A family is where people can find love, comfort, and support in most cases. All through time everyone has always had families, just not necessarily the same type. In Europe, before the Industrial Revolution, families lived as extended families like many parts of the world still do today. An extended family is when a newly married couple does not find a place of their own; they just live together with either the bride or groom's family. The only difference was in Europe usually the parents would move in with the newly weds. Many times this happened but also they had what is normal to us, the nuclear family. This is the family where newly weds start off on their own and start a family of their own away from their parents. By the 1700s extended families were not found in western and central Europe. Not many people married young during this time. The average person actually married late. People would enter adulthood !and start working before they thought about marrying. In the seventeenth and eighteenth century twenty-seven was recorded as an average age for people getting married in one English village. Late marriage and a nuclear family defined the ways of living in
than what they had been used to getting. Other changes occurred, such as parents actually wanting to raise their children and form a relationship with them. "These changes were part of the general growth of humanitarianism and cautious optimism about human potential that characterized the eighteenth- century enlightment"(603). Children in the eighteenth century were put to work in factories where they were brutally mistreated. This was the way children were brought up, with strict physical discipline. The strict discipline way of child-rearing soon ended in the middle of the century. "Critics, led by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in his famous treatise Emile, called for a greater love, tenderness, and understanding toward children as well as child-based, experimental education"(602). These people who voiced their concerns encouraged women to take care of their own babies and provide better homes for children. They also promoted loving bonds with children to help them grow and survive. The new voices were against the old way of wrapping babies in swaddling, tight fitting clothes to straighten babies out. These new ideas from the concerned people encouraged mothers and by the end of the eighteenth century children were being dressed in looser, more comfortable clothes that allowed the children more movement! Couples in Europe had to be approved by their landowner of local lord to be married. This was a law to avoid young lovers who rush to get married. The poorer couples had the worst time get
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