What was seen as a natural and desirable part of a relationship?
100
Fur
Europeans traded alcohol for this...
100
They were happier when giving birth to a son because they could pass down their traditions, but the birth of a girl was uncelebrated.
Were families happier giving birth to a son or a daughter? why?
100
Economic
In the 1990s, women were not valued for their __________ contribution to the family. (fill in the blank)
100
both parents, older siblings, other relatives and servants
In European families, who raised the children?
200
hunter-gatherer lifestyle
What lifestyle did the family history in Canada begin with?
200
No, European society was male-dominated
Did Europeans treat women and men equally?
200
After the age of four
At what age did children begin to learn about adult life?
200
Men were since women were usually married by adolescence.
For the Toda Family, were men more important or women? Why?
200
(Two) decades
Number of Canadian children placed for adoption has decreased in the past _____ decades. (fill in the blank)
300
Asia and Africa
Where was having large families considered as the "NORM"?
300
Two cultures with different values were blending.
European men started marrying Aboriginal women, what was the result of this?
300
Buffalo's
What was known as being "sacred" to men? (women were not allowed near it)
300
Men and older boys
Who was given the job of hunting in the forests?
300
Adulthood
The Upper-class would send their children away until what period in their life?
400
a (communal) wife
In parts of Nepal, India and Tibet, a family consisted of a couple, their sons and a __________ wife. (fill in the blank)
400
No, they did not because they felt children were given too much freedom (spoiled).
Did the Europeans like the parenting style of Aboriginals? Why?
400
When a wife has many husbands
What does "polyandrous" mean?
400
Household chores, they worked for another household until they were married.
What type of work were girls given to do when they served as apprentices?
400
Swaddling - when babies were wrapped in cloth tightly for extended periods of time or beating a child which is no longer acceptable.
From a modern perspective, many things done to the children in the past could be considered horrifying today. Give an example of one of these things.
500
1. Households consisted of large extended families
2. The nuclear family is a form unique to the industrialized world
3. For most of history, family was just an economic unit
Suanne Kelman discusses (3) great myths of the history of family life; what were they?
500
Diseases and Alcohol
Europeans introduced these two things to the Aboriginals. What were they?
500
When she was five months pregnant.
When was a woman sent off to a mud hunt on the edge of the village?
500
They were tied in public and often put to death.
Many women were victims of a violent husband or father, if they acted in self-defense, what was their punishment?
500
Rejection of a child-centered lifestyle.
What was the main reason for couples not having children?