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Period: 3000 BCE to 2997 BCE
Origin of Family 3000bc
For one thing, the world of classical antiquity had no word for family. This is a case where the Greeks didn't have a word for it. Wealthy people had families that contained not only spouses and children but servants, slaves, and a host of relatives and non-kin. At the same time, many slaves had no families at all. -
Period: 1201 to 1300
13th Century
The 13th-century Church of England also left a legacy of instruction for management. As the church experienced a reform movement, more clergy were encouraged to speak out on marriage and family issues. -
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Colonial America
In colonial America marriages were not based on love. Ministers described romantic love as a form of madness and urged young men to choose their mates on the basis of rational consideration of property and family. Marriages were often quite brief. In colonial Virginia, an average marriage lasted just seven years. Till death do us part meant something quite different than it does today. -
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Ellen Swallows Richard
Ellen was born on December 3rd, 1842. Swallow was trained as a chemist, earning an A.B. from Vassar College in 1870 and, as the first woman admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a B.S. in 1873. Vassar accepted her master’s thesis the same year. She remained at MIT for two more years of graduate studies, but she was not awarded a Ph.D. In 1875 she married Robert Hallowell Richards, an expert in mining and metallurgy at MIT. -
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Adoption Emerges
A small but significant number of children are brought into the family through adoption. According to the U.S. Census, in 2000 2.5 percent of children were adopted. Adoption did not exist at common law. The first comprehensive adoption statute was not passed until 1851 in Massachusetts. Since that time, the types of adoptions available to prospective parents have increased. -
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Home Economics
For many citizens at the turn of the 19th century these social dilemmas, influenced and addressed by science (ecology and biology) and technology (invention) in the home, precipitated the Lake Placid Conferences in 1899 and 1909. The progressive attendees of these conferences created an interdisciplinary body of knowledge that eventually became the home economics profession. -
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The 60's
While the nineteenth century brought about some changes in the rights and obligations within a marriage, a family consisting of two adults in their first marriage and their biological children remained the overwhelmingly dominant family structure well into the twentieth century. This began to change in the 1960s when the rate of cohabiting couples started to increase dramatically. In 1960, fewer than half a million different-sex couples cohabited. -
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The 80's
he end of the twentieth century also brought about dramatic developments related to lesbian and gay families. Starting in the 1980s, some private and public entities began to extend affirmative rights to same-sex couples. For example, in 1982 the Village Voice became the first employer to extend domestic partner health insurance benefits to the same-sex partners of its employees. -
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Currently Family Stance
From a historical perspective, however, we invest much more emotional and psychological significance in family life than did our ancestors. We regard family ties and intimacy as the key to our happiness. And as a result, when our family relationships are unhappy or abusive, we get divorced. Our high divorce rate doesn't reflect a low valuation on marriage; it reflects our overly high hopes and expectations. -
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Citing
Joslin, C. (2009) The Evolution of the American Family, AmericanBarAssociation. Available at: https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/publications/human_rights_magazine_home/human_rights_vol36_2009/summer2009/the_evolution_of_the_american_family/#:~:text=While%20the%20nineteenth%20century%20brought,well%20into%20the%20twentieth%20century.. -
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Citing 2
Digital History (no date) www.digitalhistory.uh.edu. Available at: https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/topic_display.cfm?tcid=67.
Tami James Moore and Asay, S.M. (2021) Family resource management. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publishing.