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'''Domestic Service''' I feel that if anything having domestic servants would cause families to grow apart. Now children could look to the domestic servant for care instead of their mother, creating a new motherly figure. As these women became closer to a family it changed to role of family and redefined it as well. -- Kellye Sorber | '''Domestic Service''' I feel that if anything having domestic servants would cause families to grow apart. Now children could look to the domestic servant for care instead of their mother, creating a new motherly figure. As these women became closer to a family it changed to role of family and redefined it as well. -- Kellye Sorber | ||
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| + | '''Domestic Service''' I can understand after reading these sections of Stansell how domestic servants caused families to grow apart, like Kellye mentioned. Replacing some of the motherly duties with servants perhaps diminished the relationship between a mother and her children. At the same time there were other "extra" members of the family before servants, like midwives. I think it just goes to show that throughout this long 19th century, families have been more than a mother, father and children.--Amanda | ||
'''Domestic Service''' I found the chapter on servants to be very interesting. Like Ashley, I was surprised by the amount of leverage immigrant Irish women had in setting their terms of service. Initially, I was also surprised that women would sometimes rather work in a factory then in a household. After reading all of the expectations a mistress had of her servants, in addition to being subjected to censure and moral judgment, I can see how being a servant, while a secure position, was often seen as less then desirable. --Sarah Gardner | '''Domestic Service''' I found the chapter on servants to be very interesting. Like Ashley, I was surprised by the amount of leverage immigrant Irish women had in setting their terms of service. Initially, I was also surprised that women would sometimes rather work in a factory then in a household. After reading all of the expectations a mistress had of her servants, in addition to being subjected to censure and moral judgment, I can see how being a servant, while a secure position, was often seen as less then desirable. --Sarah Gardner | ||
