Adolescents
Young girls were expected to perform household duties, while young boys were to help their fathers in farming.
Mostly women raised the children, but "When a boy was about four or five... his father began the training of his son."
When adolescents turned 15, they were expected to be independent. Today, this tradition of work ethic still applies to adolescents.
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Famous quotes containing the word adolescents:
“The family environment in which your children are growing up is different from that in which you grew up. The decisions our parents made and the strategies they used were developed in a different context from what we face today, even if the “content” of the problem is the same. It is a mistake to think that our own experience as children and adolescents will give us all we need to help our children. The rules of the game have changed.”
—Lawrence Kutner (20th century)