1. Pre Industrial Families

2. Pre Industrial Family A hetero-sexual married couple
Raising ten or more children
Families would work and make money to finance their survival
Marriage was considered an economic necessity

3. Life in a Pre-Industrial Family
Not made to be loving or nurturing
Bound together by mutual consent
Members of the family played different roles than families today

4. Critique of a Pre-industrial Family
Female members of the family may view this era as unfair
No room for progression
Gender laws did not allow for women to have many opportunities.

5. Families Today Gay Marriages are legal Marriage is based on love
Children are not required to work
Families are smaller
Adoption/Abortion are now options

6. Changes in Men Men are not always the primary money maker.
Fathers are at an older age
More men living at home
More job options (aside from farming)
Men are less dominant in relationships

7. Changes in Women Women have more freedom More job options
Higher ranking in society
More options for women (abortion, marriage, dating, etc.)
Less house wives

8. Functions of a Pre-Industrial Family
New members of a family benefited Canadian society by stimulating economic growth
High death rate made it necessary to raise up a dozen children
Mothers taught daughters domestic activities
Fathers would teach sons manual labor
Families raised their children strictly to work
Father was the head of the family
Each individual family played an important role in society
The men were raised to work and make money
Women were raised to protect their family and territory

9. Functions of the Pre-Industrial Family
Pre-Industrial families did not fulfill all six of the functions
Instead of assuming affective nurturance, relationships were based on what could be provided for one another.
Each family produced all the goods and services it consumed and only used what it could produce. Nowadays, families will use the goods and services of others

10. Key Reasons to Study Families
Important to Understand:
How gender roles have changed
How the role of children and concept of childhood have changed
Economic factors

11. Specific To Pre-Industrial Families
Pre-Industrial families are the beginning of modern families
Pre-industrial families can be seen in early Canadian history