Women were to be married off to men that would support them and be able to care for a family. Love wasn’t the primary focus in choosing a partner; rather, a woman was looking for a financially stable man who could father her children, so that the family line would continue. To marry solely out of love would be looked down upon if it meant not marrying into the appropriate social class. A good respectable family would have consisted of a hard-working, business man father, a respectable, stay-at-home, housewife mother, and their children, which were especially good if they were boys. For a woman to marry and not bare children, marry into an unsuitable family, or to not marry at all where all considered inappropriate choices for a women and were highly
Women were to be married off to men that would support them and be able to care for a family. Love wasn’t the primary focus in choosing a partner; rather, a woman was looking for a financially stable man who could father her children, so that the family line would continue. To marry solely out of love would be looked down upon if it meant not marrying into the appropriate social class. A good respectable family would have consisted of a hard-working, business man father, a respectable, stay-at-home, housewife mother, and their children, which were especially good if they were boys. For a woman to marry and not bare children, marry into an unsuitable family, or to not marry at all where all considered inappropriate choices for a women and were highly