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Title: Gender differences in the dispersal of children in northern Sweden and the northern USA in 1850

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2007

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DOI: 10.1016/j.hisfam.2007.05.001

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Abstract: In the course of time families disperse and kin relationships change. In this study gender differences in spatial dispersion of adult children from their fathers were investigated in two areas of the world in 1850: the Skellefteå region in northern Sweden and the northern part of the USA, both largely rural populations. The results from the Skellefteå region where data on both genders were available were used to estimate gender differences among a native born population in the northern USA where women were often not followed in the sources after marriage. Most adult children resided in the same place as their fathers, but the distances separating relatives were greater in the USA. However, the proportion of adult sons living in the same locality as their fathers was the same in both. More daughters than sons were located elsewhere in Skellefteå and probably also in the USA. Although sisters in Skellefteå joined each other in places separate from their parents, men lived in patrilineal clusters to a greate...

Url: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1016/j.hisfam.2007.05.001

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Authors: Egerbladh, Inez; Kasakoff, Alice Bee; Adams, John W.

Periodical (Full): The History of the Family

Issue: 1

Volume: 12

Pages: 2-18

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Gender

Countries: United States