The number of children in the household varies with their age. Unsurprisingly, those under 18 dominate the data with a total of 2,431: 8 out of 10. Between the ages of 18 and 35 the figure drops sharply to 630 (2 out of 10). Finally, those over 35 account for 1% of the total (37 children). The data confirm the age-split structures that are configured with the life cycle of individuals. The greater the economic and legal dependency, the higher the rate of residence in the family home; on the contrary, when a marital bond is created, people leave home to form a new residential nucleus. Within these dynamics, variables can be differentiated according to the sex of the child. Thus, while men leave home more frequently, female guardianship was framed first under paternal parental authority and then with the husband. Consequently, the higher rate of celibacy among women meant that they were slower to leave the family home. If this happens at an advanced age, we find the contrast in the younger age of women, whose marriage age is lower than that of men (in proportion, they married less, but they married earlier), favouring the departure of women from the home.
Collection: Graphics
Project: 3. Rural world and urban world in the formation of the European identity., 4. Family, daily life and social inequality in Europe.
Chronology: XVIII
Scope: Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, University
Resource type: Graph
Format: Bar chart
Source: Gómez Carrasco, Cosme Jesús (2007). Entre el mundo rural y el mundo urbano. Familia, parentesco y organización social en la villa de Albacete (1750-1808). Albacete: Instituto de Estudios Albacetenses, p. 96.
Language: Spanish
Date: 2007
Owner: Pablo Ballesta Fernández (Modernalia)
Copyright: © Cosme Jesús Gómez Carrasco © Instituto de Estudios Albacetenses “Don Juan Manuel”
Abstract: Life cycle of Albacete's children by sex and economic status
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