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Parents of Poor Children in England 1580-1800 (Hardcover)
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Parents of Poor Children in England 1580-1800 (Hardcover)
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Parents of Poor Children is the first sustained study of the
mothers and fathers of poor children in the England of the early
modern and early industrial period. Although we know a good deal
about the family life of monarchs in this period, much less is
known about what life was like for poor single mothers, or for
ordinary people who were trying to bring up their children. What
were poor mothers and fathers trying to achieve, and what support
did they have from their society, especially from the welfare
system?
Patricia Crawford attempts to answer these important questions, in
order to illuminate the experience of parenting at this time from
the perspective of the poor, a group who have naturally left little
in the way of literary testimony. In doing this, she draws upon a
wide range of archival material, including quarter session records,
petitions for assistance, applications for places in the London
Foundling Hospital, and evidence from criminal trials in London's
Old Bailey.
England in this period had a developing system of welfare, unique
in Europe, by which parish rates were collected and administered to
those deemed worthy of relief. The "civic fathers" who administered
this welfare drew upon a code of fatherhood framed in the
Elizabethan period, by which a patriarch took responsibility for
maintaining and exercising authority over wives and children. But,
as Patricia Crawford shows, this code of family conduct was the
product of a material world completely alien to that which the poor
inhabited. Parents of the poor were different from those of
middling and elite status. Poverty, not property, dictated their
relationships with their children. Poor families were frequently
broken by death. Fathers were frequently absent, and mothers had to
rear their children with whatever forms of relief they could find.
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