Centuries of Childhood/ Centuries of Parenting: Philippe Ariès and the Modernization of Privileged Infancy
1987; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 12; Issue: 1-3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1177/036319908701200119
ISSN1552-5473
Autores Tópico(s)Historical Economic and Social Studies
ResumoIn Centuries of Childhood Philippe Ariès studied the evolution of par ental investment among the materially and socially privileged families of France from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. His general hypothesis, interpreted in the vocabulary of modern research, was that both the financial and emotional costs of elite childrear ing were rising during this period Once greater emotional involvement led to high investments in infant survival, infant mortality declined, survivorship rose, and privi leged families were forced to adopt fertility control in order to avoid the production of too many very costly children. In this article Ariès' verbal "model" is tested using quantitative data from both French and other European elite groups.
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