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Families 100 years ago in comparison to today

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In today’s presentation we’d like to show you how families lived 100 years ago in comparison to families today.

If there are any questions you’d like to ask, please leave them until the end, when we’ll do our best to answer them.

Now we want to continue with explaining how families are living at in present.

Nowadays it is normal to get non, one or two children. Just a few get more. 100 years ago five or more children were formerly quite normal for an average family; this is now almost rare or special. Today, there are usually no more than two kids, this proves an Austrian study. An average family in Austria gets no more than 1,2 children.

The basic difference between the past and present families, the so-called hierarchy. The head of the family is no longer the father. In the modern family is the mother the boss. She manages the money, usually goes to work, cares for children and also makes the household. The woman is no longer dependent on the man and goes to work herself, that’s the reason why there are more and more divorces.

Deutsche Familie vor 100 Jahren auf dem Land mit fünf Kindern.
Deutsche Familie vor 100 Jahren auf dem Land mit fünf Kindern.

In the last 100 years, the family has changed. In contrast to today, there was formerly a large family. In large families the grandparents, aunts and uncles, parents and children lived in a household. Today there are mainly just Nuclear-, Patchwork-, Foster and sometimes large families.

It is also normal that two men or women adopt children. In the past it was impossible

100 years ago women got 5 to 10 children or more, but many children died in child age. On average, people got only 47 years old.

Earlier, the father had all the important decisions and the task to raise the money. The mother was a housewife and had as most support the oldest daughter. On the success of the children weighed hope of the parents, the son should get the best possible college degree. The daughters, however, were brought to downright housewives, only a low level of education were allowed so they could marry as early as possible and can manage her future husband a nice home.

Most families in cities lived in tenements or in workers' settlements. The apartments were small, but there lived large families in it. At the country the people lived from farming and almost all the work was done by the people themselves or by draft animals. They needed the children for the work at home. Nearly all children had to work. They did deliveries of goods or helped in factories. They brought the workers in the mine water and food. Often they still had to work in a factory as adults.

In the 20th century the whole family lived in one house and helped together as much as they could. But if a child didn’t obey they often had to kneel on a piece of wood or got proposals.



One parent often earns too less money, so the second has to go to work too, to earn some money. Therefore, occur that children are cared for and educated of other people as Grandparents, child-minders or larger siblings. It is observe that children in the worst case afternoons must supply alone.

Often the children don't have a caregiver, because of lack of time. But children also have problems. They need a person they trust, who they can turn to. But children also need rules too. Many only children are spoilt so they get everything they want.



As more and more men and women decide for the career and against children, there are fewer and fewer families. It has become very difficult at the present to support a family, because the living costs are always growing.

Many partners decide to get children later. So they get their first child with 35 and so they may think that they are too old and won’t get a second. But there are also other problems in our world. In China for example, a woman is just allowed to get one child, although she wants a second one. Some Chinese parents also have to send their only child to work to get some money, because they are so poor.



Population Development

In the following diagram we want to show you the evolution of our population in Austria.

The population was always growing until the World War I, because there died a lot of people and there was less money and so the woman didn’t get many children. When the World War ended, the population grew again. Then the World War II came and there died lots of people again. In the 1950 the conservation pill was invented. So there weren’t born so many babies. Until 2005 the population was growing, but now the line is sinking again.

Any further questions depending the statistic?

Article

Now we are showing you an article about “Work and Family”. Please read through it and answer the two questions below.

  • 1.) With which parent the child usually grows on in case of a divorce? – The mother

  • 2.) Has the salary for woman grown? Yes or no? – Yes




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