The average size of families and households in the Province of Massachusetts in 1764 and in the United States in 1790: an overview

Greven, Philip J.

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511561207.022

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“…Studies of households and families of the late eighteenth century in the north-east of the American states (Demos 1972;Greven 1972) have revealed larger families than in earlier or later periods of English or American history. With better health but few effective methods of family limitation, parents in these states had children at fairly regular intervals, of whom fewer died at young ages.…”

Section: Household/family Structure and Dynamicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

'The Roman Family' in Recent Research: State of the Question

Rawson¹

2003

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In the past two decades of rapid expansion,the study of ‘the Roman family’ has developed from its early focus on the city of Rome and on legal, literary and epigraphical sources to a wider geographical canvas and to more extensive use of archaeological material. The whole range of sources is now being applied to particular problems, providing different perspectives and a better chance of contextualising specific details. Of the new methodologies available, demography and the archaeology of domestic space are proving most productive. Questions most frequently debated are the Romans’ concept of ‘the family’ and the nature of family relationships. There is a growing recognition that regional and cultural differentiation must be taken into account: generalisations about ‘the Mediterranean world’ or even ‘Greco-Roman culture’ are seldom useful. Similarly, regional differentiations in early Christianity are being recognised: Christian communities were likely to share many of the characteristics of the city or area in which they were developing. This makes the growing dialogue between Romanists and Early Christian scholars profitable and stimulating, and topics of particular fertilisation are those of family relationships and domestic space.

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Section: Household/family Structure and Dynamicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

'The Roman Family' in Recent Research: State of the Question

Rawson¹

2003

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“…Attention has frequently been drawn to the advantages of extended or joint family organization when frontier conditions, such as those that characterized much of the Balkans until recent times, place a premium on solitary male labor groups for building, clearing, and defense (Kriskovic, 1925; cfi Greven, 1972) Clearly, the male surplus made available for military service was a key factor in Austrian legal and administrative support for the zadruga on the Military Frontier. Novakovi6 (1891), citing precedents for taxation on a household rather than on an individual basis, particularly in labor dues, observes that sets of married males who remain together can diminish their per capita burden by doing so.…”

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confidence: 99%