Bottom line notes today!

1. extended family (beyond just Mom/Dad, children)
2. nuclear (or “conjugal” family)
3. married late because of land/dowry
4. send boys off to work – plow, weave, apprenticed, laborer
5. send girls off to work – domestic work, eye of the mistress, sexual exploitation
6. Before enclosure – pre-marital sex was common; but if you got pregnant, you got married (33% pregnant brides, 20% pregnant brides but only 2% mother-brides)
7. community pressure to marry and the reason – unwed Mom was a community burden
8. birth control – coitus interuptus – is Latin translated to… There was a salmon who was swimming upstream. He’s swimming, swimming, swimming, trying to get back home. But, just before he gets back home, a grizzly bear plucks him up out of the water.
9. 1750 – “illegitimacy explosion”(25% babies out of wedlock, 36% in another town). This is after enclosure.
• Likely due to…

- growth of cottage industry which means new economics, independence, and mobility. A young man didn’t have to wait for the farm to be passed down to him.

- Lessened community pressure to marry since open-field system is gone.

- Pragmatic marriage or love marriage? Reason is love now.

- Guys become “players”, promising marriage in the future in exchange for sex now.

10. poor nurse their young; aristocracy hire “wet nurses”
11. infant death – “killing nurses”, “overlaying”, more natural deaths
12. foundlings – babies “dropped off” somewhere; 25,000 in St. Pete, 5,000 per year. 1/3 by married in Paris. 50% to 90% die
13. indifference – babies neglected due to likely death, but death due to neglect
14. harsh treatment or discipline
15. Rousseau/Enlightenment call for more tender care with optimistic outlook for kids
16. Basic literacy on the rise due to (1) Protestant/Catholic competition (2)read the Bible! (3)chapbooks (4)entertainment (5)how-to books
17. Fairy tales, medieval romances, fantasy, superhuman powers (fairies, trolls, etc), good vs. evil