Centuries of Childhood/Centuries of Parenting

Philippe Ariès and the Modernization of Privileged Infancy

Bibliographic Data

ID6079996
AuthorsRyan Johansson, S Ryan Johansson (S. Ryan Johansson is a Lecturer in Demography at the Group in Demography, University of California, Berkeley, and a visiting scholar at Stanford Medical School's Department of Family, Community and Preventive Medicine (1985–1986). Her research interests are in the history of mortality change over the last five centuries in Europe and America, and recently Japan., corresponding author)
Year1987
Volume12
Issue4
Pages343-365
Publication date1987-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Family History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0363-1990 • E-ISSN: 1552-5473
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/036319908701200401
OpenAlexW4231500249
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited16

In Centuries of Childhood Philippe Ariès studied the evolution of parental 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 childrearing were rising during this period Once greater emotional involvement led to high investments in infant survival, infant mortality declined survivorship rose, and privileged families were forced to adopt fertility control in order to avoid the production of too many very costly children. In this article Aries' verbal “model” is tested using quantitative data from both French and other European elite groups

Developmental psychology · Economic growth · Economics · Elite · Fertility · Modernization theory · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Survivorship curve · Demography · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Law · Psychology

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