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History of the family

Looking at the American family across time

The history of family history

• A vital point to remember is the fact that most research (until recently) has focused on white families.
• Even within this context it often had an even narrower focus – the white middle class.

Activities of early Western families

• Family-based economy
  • Production
  • Reproduction
  • Consumption

Colonial Families

• Public family
• Performs a public good
• Limited privacy
• Three R’s of childhood
• Repression
• Respect
• Religion

Colonial Families

• Family served as
  • School
  • Vocational institute
  • Church
  • House of correction
  • Orphanage
  • Welfare institution
  • Poorhouse

Colonial African American (Slave)

families

• William Tucker
• Men outnumbered women
• Forbidden to marry
• Worked to maintain traditional African family
• Children often taken from them

Emerging “Modern” Family

• Marriage based on affection
• Household division of labor
  • “separate spheres”
  • “women’s sphere”
• Division of labor not an option for working class, immigrant, and poor families

The Private Family

• Private family
  • intimate relationship
  • Pool resources & household labor
• Emergence of private family brought public concerns
  • Increased premarital sex
  • Drop in birthrate
  • Rebelling youth culture
  • Rising divorce rates

Private Family:

War & Great Depression Years

 Married middle class women called into the workforce.

 Women take on jobs generally held by men.

 Men return. What does Rosie do?

 New media campaigns

Private Family:

Ladies, You Can Go Home Now.

Private Family:

Ladies, You Can Go Home Now.

Private Family:

Ladies, You Can Go Home Now.