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Jan 1, 1350
Renaissance Era
Woman stay home and take care of the house. Dad goes and work at merchant shops. Girls at the age of 12 can get married and boys at the age of 14 can also. Children were deemed old enough to work at 7. So girls helped around the house with their moms and boys went to merchant shops with their dads. As a infant you were already planned to marry somone picked by your parents. -
Jan 1, 1350
current time
Families lived in apartments,houses, and complexs. They have many differnt types of families and incomes. -
Jan 1, 1350
Industrial Revolution
Marriage/ Divorce rates
· Couples usually do not enter into marriage before they had acquired the skills to insure an economically self-sufficient unit.
Marriage Procedures
· Families were nuclear . The average family consisted of a husband,wife and their children.
Average age for marriage
·Industrialization made it easier for couples to marry. Studies suggested that the average marriage of men -
Jan 1, 1350
Civil War
Of 2,888 slave marriages in Mississippi, Tennessee and Louisiana, over 32% of marriages were dissolved by masters as a result of slaves being sold away from the family homeMarriage was based on spiritual partnership and courtship
American law did not recognize marriage between African American slaves
Some slaves did have weddings, produced either with the assistance of whites or on their own
Before civil war half of all the slaves were under the age of 16
Children were to be respectful and lear -
Jan 1, 1350
1920s
During the last half of the 1920s, the marriage rate steadily declined and continued to decline into the beginning of the Great Depression. This decline is a result of men and women deciding to wait to get married and instead, do what they wish before they were forced to settle down.
The divorce rate of American couples actually increased.
Divorces declined at the beginning of the 1920s to seven from eight divorces per thousand married women per year
During the last half of the decade the Roarin -
Jan 1, 1350
world war 2
Years of war 1939-1945.
Divorce rates up to 35% by end of war.
Brides often wore everyday clothes or borrowed gowns.
Grooms often wore their uniform
Children were often raised by relatives or neighbors and the oldest son would take over the father role.
Mothers would work day and night.
Men with children didn’t get drafted until 1943.
Wages increased from $25 a week to $50 with a hefty bonus.
Despite the loss of nearly 800,000 farm workers, even farm income increased.
Most families lived in s -
Jan 1, 1350
1960s
Have to have a marriage License.
The names of the couple.
The age of how old they are.
Have to list how old the children's names and how old they are.
Marriage Rates decreased by 5%.
Divorce Rates increased by 3%.
moms' time working outside the home averaged eight hours a week in 1965
roughly 37% of moms worked outside of the home
The average mom was defined by her husband and maintained a domestic role as housewife
the 60’s era was big on school and teaching their children discipline
