Unit #4 – Parent Child Relationship HHS 4M Mr. Carney

A Brief History “Despite what some radical critics believe, the nuclear, monogamous family is not a recent innovation. Its been present in some societies from the dawn of history.” Suanne Kelman 1998 In Asia and Africa, the fathers mother would reside with the family. In Nepal, India, and Tibet, the family consisted of a couple, their sons, and a communal wife whom the sons shared and who bore all the children for the next generation. This helped keep the population growth small.

History Continued In Europe during the middle ages, an upper class family took great care to ensure that their child married someone who was suitable for carrying on the family line. Lower class families needed children to contribute their labour to the family unit. The upper class children spent their infancy with a woman (not their mother) who was hired to breast feed. The lower classes breast fed their own infants. From the time they could walk the children would accompany an adult if the same gender during the day to learn his or her chores.

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