Childhood family structure has been shown to play an important role in sha** a child's life
course development, especially in industrialised societies. One hypothesis which could …

Linked life histories of children and of their parents living in Aranjuez (Spain) between 1870
and 1950 are used to assess the health and well-being of children in terms of the survival …

Until late in the nineteenth century, the loss of a parent was an event with which many
children were confronted. It generally endangered the smooth operation of the family, could …

Several studies have shown the importance of the mother in the survival and wellbeing of
her children. However, none of them have analyzed the rural areas of the Iberian Peninsula …

This study tries to shed light on the way in which family characteristics affected the survival of
children in nineteenth-century European societies. Insights from recent epidemiological …

This study combines computerized parish registers with parish meeting records that account
for individuals who received poor relief in the nineteenth-century Sundsvall region, Sweden …

This essay combines prison records with parish registers to employ life-course perspectives
on past offenders and expand the view of them. The results show highly unusual criminal …

In this article we propose two approaches for determining the number of orphaned children
in a population and for studying their life course. The first approach is based on vital …

The author investigates the frequency of peasant stepfamilies in Bohemia between 1650
and 1800 and how the legal framework and everyday practices related to the transmission of …

This study focuses on the effects on survival of children of growing up in a family with or
without both biological parents and/or stepparents. We use data from a representative …