Comment by aaron695
10 years ago
You can't seriously think mother's have not mourned a dead child at all times.
Even from the logical point of view of if they don't love and miss why care for the child at all.
10 years ago
You can't seriously think mother's have not mourned a dead child at all times.
Even from the logical point of view of if they don't love and miss why care for the child at all.
Yes, and another key difference between 17th and 21st century Europe is the status of women. Starting with literacy; we can record our sorrows now.
I wonder whether contemporary societies with less status for women and lower female literacy also have less formal/legal value on children. (India?)
Of course they did, but there's still a big difference between a society where child death is a rare tragedy and one where child death is unavoidable and common.