Child Raising Practices in Transylvania in the Second Half of the 19th Century
Child Raising Practices in Transylvania in the Second Half of the 19th Century

Summary/Abstract: The chosen tile for this study, child raising practices, comes from a synonymic relation with the Anglo-Saxon term child care, an expression denominating the whole array of ways of primary care for a child (Solomon 2006, 144). I mainly referred here to the way the child was cared for in the family, in terms of food,clothing, hygiene and physical care, diseases and attitudes towards them. The sources consist of advice books, educative articles from the magazines of those times as well as fragments of recollections from memoirs. Since I was especially interested in describing the way or the ways that former children were raised this chapter is mainly a descriptive and positivist one, which aims at answering the question how children were raised in the past and not at finding explanations such as why or what for.

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