Reaching adulthood. Cultural transmission and intergenerational relations within the family in The Netherlands in the nineteenth century

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ID10324643
AuthorsMonique Stavenuiter (corresponding author)
Year1996
Volume32
Issuesup1
Pages125-143
Publication date1996-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePaedagogica Historica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0030-9230 • E-ISSN: 1477-674X
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00309230.1996.11434861
OpenAlexW2260494563
LanguageEN
References cited12

Only recently, historians have begun to study the question of how parents actually raised their children within their family, and how transmission of norms and values, knowledge and emotions, and patterns of behaviour within families took place.This article concentrates on the passage from adolescence to adulthood through the theme of marriage formation and partner choice. Discussion centres upon how parents viewed and reacted to the marriage plans of their children and whether parents and children agreed or disagreed on this matter. Therefore it will be seen whether the adolescents could pursue their own ambitions and develop a personal identity, or if their personal ambitions were secondary to the family's main goal of maintaining the family enterprise and remaining in the upper strata of the society of Amsterdam in the nineteenth century.The main sources used in this article are personal documents (such as diaries, letters and autobiographies) of both parents and children of leading families in nineteenth-century Amsterdam. A longitudinal perspective will be obtained by following several generations of children and parents over time

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