Between 16 and 20 it was expected for young colonial men and women to marry.
Between 16 and 20 it was expected for young colonial men and women to marry.
Live with their parents
Because women are expected to be virgins when they marry.
Single young women in Colonial America were expected to live with and care for their parents and even siblings, and do free work.They were also expected to get married. Many quite young teens (normal for the times) married just to escape from home (just like in modern times).Women who never married often only received a bedsted (a frame) and a feather mattress when the father or mother died.
Single young women in Colonial America were expected to live with and care for their parents and even siblings, and do free work.They were also expected to get married. Many quite young teens (normal for the times) married just to escape from home (just like in modern times).Women who never married often only received a bedsted (a frame) and a feather mattress when the father or mother died.
Get married and start to have babies. Most were married by 12 years old.
Single young women in Colonial America were expected to live with and care for their parents and even siblings, and do free work.They were also expected to get married. Many quite young teens (normal for the times) married just to escape from home (just like in modern times).Women who never married often only received a bedsted (a frame) and a feather mattress when the father or mother died.
Single young women in Colonial America were expected to live with and care for their parents and even siblings, and do free work.They were also expected to get married. Many quite young teens (normal for the times) married just to escape from home (just like in modern times).Women who never married often only received a bedsted (a frame) and a feather mattress when the father or mother died.
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In traditional farming cultures, as Pakistan was, women had few roles other than being a mother. They did not go to school and were not expected to get a job. They were expected to be able to have lots of children so the trend became to marry straight after puberty so that girls would have the maximum number of fertile years to have children. Even though the culture has changed over time some families do put pressure on girls to marry young for fear that she will be too old to have kids later.
The "Casket Girls of Louisiana," young women sent from France to the colonies (now the United States) to marry, carried their belongings in caskets