Child Care and Nursing
What was the percent chance of women dying during childbirth?
5-10%
What was the first main action that Europe took to combat the infanticides with unwanted pregnancies?
Europe started to open homes for abandoned children in cities. starting with Italy, Spain, and Portugal and later the rest of Europe orphanages. this was provided by the state and the church to prevent the crimes.one- third of all babies born in Paris in the 1770s were immediately abandoned to the foundling homes.
How did Susannah Wesley’s , founder of methodism, belief in obedience physically affect her children?
She would beat them for lying, stealing, disobeying, and quarreling. these are things all kids do because it is only human nature. her methods reflected a broad consensus that children were born with sin that parents need to correct.
Which country believed strongly in the study of Scriptures in schools?
Scotland
How did wet nursing business contribute to the infant decline?
The nurses had to send their own infants away which often resulted in neglect therefore contributed to the infant decline. Also, dangerous travel, lack of supervision of conditions at the nurses’ homes, and the need to share the milk between multiple infants.
What were the three main choices women with unwanted pregnancies had to decide on?
Abortion, infanticide, and orphanages/hospitals. While because of the desperation some women went through, some of the options they had revolved death. Most Young women who carried children out of wedlock mostly placed infant in the foundling homes. About one hundred thousand abandoned kids where admitted annually by the end of the 18th century.
What caused parents to not form good relationships with their children/babies?
High mortality rate with newborns
What did a week look like for a child living in Europe look like? (Include their age range)?
Going to school five hours a week five days a week for kids 6-12 years old
What made it unsafe for women to deliver a baby?
Unsanitary conditions and old methods of delivery
What percent of children normally died within a year at the foundling homes and hospitals?
Fully 90% of children passed away within a year at the homes mainly due to malnutrition, diseases, and neglect. Regarding Rousseau’s children none of them were known to survive.
How does the phrase “Spare the rod and spoil the child” reflect the attitude towards children’s discipline of the back then society?
It shows that if you don’t discipline your child, they will become spoiled.
What was the consumer revolution?
It created new expectations for comfort, hygiene, and self-expression, thus dramatically changing European daily life in the 18th century.