The Child in the Family in the Old Demographic Regime. The Case of Voyvodovo, Czech Village in Bulgaria (1900-1950)
Abstrakt
The chapter explores the assumption about the different attitudes to childhood in the societies in the past. The idea of a different concept of childhood in traditional societies will be explored on the example of Voyvodovo, Czech village in Bulgaria, in the period 1900-1950, when the character of the local population could be described as the old demographic regime.
High birth rates and high death rates and frequent remarriages influenced the character of the family very much. The author argues that it was not so much a different notion of childhood what made the difference between the childhood in Voyvodovo in the first half of the 20th century and childhood in the subsequent decades, but rather the old demographic regime that had shaped the structure and character of the family and the roles within family to a large extent.
Chapter is based on the fieldwork and archive work data.