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The life of children in Rome depended on the families they were born into. Poor children struggled for survival like their families. Children of middle income families enjoyed a degree of affluence. The children of the rich lived in luxury.
Roman children played with hoops with pieces of metals on them, like bells, to jingle and warn people in their way, kites and hobbyhorses. They played Board Games. They made tiny models of people and animals. They played tic-tac-toe, and a game called "knucklebones", which is a lot like jacks, only played with bones. Boys walked on stilts, played ball games and with bats. Girls played with rag and wax dolls.
Roman children also played with pets. Dogs were common and the favourite pets. Many kinds of birds were pets including pigeons, ducks, quail, and geese. Cats started to become pets around 1 century AD. Monkeys were also pets, but they were rare.
The Romans did not have state education. Teachers run classes for a fee. The children of those who could afford some education went to school until the age of 10-11 and learnt to read and write and basic maths. The children of richer people continued until the age of 14-15. They improved their writing, learnt oration, expressive poetic reading and poetic analysis. Pupils were expected to have some knowledge of spoken and written Greek and classes were run in both languages. A small number of children went on to study rhetoric.
Unwanted, deformed or disabled children were exposed in the hope that someone else would take care of them. This was not peculiar to the Roman. In was practices by other ancient societies and in the Middle Ages. It stopped when orphanages were created.
The paterfamilias (head of the household) had authority (patria potestas) over the assets of the household and his children for life. The eldest of the sons who lived in the father's household a the time of his death became the new pater familias, sons who had formed their own households became paterfamilias after this death. Any property the family members acquired belonged to the family estate and only the pater familias had right to its disposal. He was also liable for the debts of the household. In the aerly days he had the power to sell his children into slavery, but if a child had been sold as a slave three times, he was no longer subject to patria potestas. In the early days there was debt bondage. A debtor 9who was usually poor) pledged his person as the collateral and in case of default, his labour was bonded to the creditor as a from or repayment. In desperate cases children were sold as slaves. One the debt was cleared the child could return home. The limitation of three sale was aimed at regulating these actions. Further restrictions were added later. A pater familias also had responsibilities twoerd wife and children and family decisions were taken in a family meeting.
A pater familia had the duty of marrying his daughter, which usually occurred in their teens.First marriages were usually arranged. Consensual marriage was allowed form the age of 12 for girls and 14 for boys. A maried girl came under the potestas of the husband. However, later, her legal relationship with the father contiued unchanged even if she moved to her husband's house.This crerated a degree of indepelndece for women which was not seen in other ancient societies and in the Middle Ages. Although she hjad to legally answer to her father, he did not scrutinise her and her husband no longer had legal rights over her. Women could inherit and own and dispose of property.
The adoption of boys was a fairly common in the upper class. Inheritance was restricted to legitimate children by law. A man without legitimate male issue would adopt a young man to have a heir and to reinforce ties and make alliances with other high status families. Adoption of girls was much less common.
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∙ 13y agoThey must have been really proud. After all their empire was huge! They were really powerful. In the myth, Romulus and Remus got into fights over who would be king. Remus's brother actually killed him in order to rule Rome. They were the rightful kings. The Romans were so powerful they were called invisible in the days of BC but that changed when Rome was conquered.
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∙ 12y agoChildren in Roman times would do the same things as children in present times do. They would play with their toys, go to school, participate in games, try to "put one over" on their parents or nannies, and in general just be kids.
Children in Roman times would do the same things as children in present times do. They would play with their toys, go to school, participate in games, try to "put one over" on their parents or nannies, and in general just be kids.
Children in Roman times would do the same things as children in present times do. They would play with their toys, go to school, participate in games, try to "put one over" on their parents or nannies, and in general just be kids.
Children in Roman times would do the same things as children in present times do. They would play with their toys, go to school, participate in games, try to "put one over" on their parents or nannies, and in general just be kids.
Children in Roman times would do the same things as children in present times do. They would play with their toys, go to school, participate in games, try to "put one over" on their parents or nannies, and in general just be kids.
Children in Roman times would do the same things as children in present times do. They would play with their toys, go to school, participate in games, try to "put one over" on their parents or nannies, and in general just be kids.
Children in Roman times would do the same things as children in present times do. They would play with their toys, go to school, participate in games, try to "put one over" on their parents or nannies, and in general just be kids.
Children in Roman times would do the same things as children in present times do. They would play with their toys, go to school, participate in games, try to "put one over" on their parents or nannies, and in general just be kids.
Children in Roman times would do the same things as children in present times do. They would play with their toys, go to school, participate in games, try to "put one over" on their parents or nannies, and in general just be kids.
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∙ 12y agoChildren in Roman times would do the same things as children in present times do. They would play with their toys, go to school, participate in games, try to "put one over" on their parents or nannies, and in general just be kids.
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∙ 13y agowell usually people had to ern money by working on farms and by joining the empire. x
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∙ 8y agoLife in a Roman village was the same as in that of other peoples. People engaged in agriculture and/or animal husbandry.
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