Growing Up Fatherless in Antiquity EPUB
Edited by Sabine R. Hubner, David M. Ratzan
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As the changes in the traditional family accelerated toward the end of the twentieth century, a great deal of attention came to focus on fathers, both modern and ancient.
While academics and politicians alike singled out the conspicuous and growing absence of the modern father as a crucial factor affecting contemporary family and social dynamics, ancient historians and classicists have rarely explored ancient father-absence, despite the likelihood that nearly a third of all children in the ancient Mediterranean world were fatherless before they turned fifteen.
The proportion of children raised by single mothers, relatives, step-parents, or others was thus at least as high in antiquity as it is today.
This book assesses the wide-ranging impact high levels of chronic father-absence had on the cultures, politics, and families of the ancient world.
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- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:19/02/2009
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- ISBN:9780511737756
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- Format:EPUB
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
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- ISBN:9780511737756