What was the role of Children in the Elizabethan age?
They were loved and cherished generally; they were also used as pawns in wealthy families, to marry the offspring of other wealthy families in order to increase lands, power and wealthy. This was particularly true of royal children. They were expected to obey their parents without question and respect and honour them. The females would obey the men, even the brothers. However, in the days of very high infant mortality, practically every family would expect to lose at least one child, so the parents would keep trying, sometimes causing the mother to be pregnant annually. http://elizabethan.org/compendium/40.htm… http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizab… http://www.elizabethanenglandlife.com/th…
