Multigenerational families in nineteenth-century America
Multigenerational families in nineteenth-century America
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十九世纪美国的多代家庭
DOI：
10.1017/s0268416003004466
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发表时间：
2003
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0.9
通讯作者：
S. Ruggles
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作者：
S. Ruggles
修正主义历史学家认为，19世纪的美国和西北欧的老年人通常喜欢独自居住或只与配偶居住。根据这一解释，老年人通常只是出于需要，特别是在贫穷或体弱的情况下，才与其成年子女居住在一起。本文对这一观点提出了质疑，认为在世纪中期的美国，老人与子女同住几乎是普遍的，穷人和病人是最有可能独自生活的群体。文章认为，多代同堂家庭在二十世纪的衰落与雇佣劳动的兴起以及农业和职业继承的重要性下降有关。
Revisionist historians maintain that the aged in nineteenth-century America and north-western Europe usually preferred to reside alone or with only their spouse. According to this interpretation, the aged ordinarily resided with their adult children only out of necessity, especially in cases of poverty or infirmity. This article challenges that position, arguing that in mid-nineteenth-century America coresidence of the aged with their children was almost universal, and that the poor and sick aged were the group most likely to live alone. The article suggests that the decline of the multigenerational family in the twentieth century is connected to the rise of wage labour and the diminishing importance of agricultural and occupational inheritance.