Czy śmierć ojca wpływała na moment ślubu jego potomstwa? Badania pilotażowe XIX-wiecznego Poznania

Grażyna Liczbińska

doi:10.18290/rh25732.2

Published : 2025-04-11

Vol. 73 No. 2 (2025)

Did Father’s Death Affect the Moment of His Offspring’s Marriage? Pilot Studies of 19th-Century Poznań

Grażyna Liczbińska

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0922-4612

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18290/rh25732.2

Abstract

Environmental stresses, such as wars, natural disasters, epidemics, economic and political upheavals, worsen family functioning. In addition, living in a family environment affected, for example, by the death of a parent (mainly the father), increases stress levels among offspring. According to psychosocial acceleration theory, a stressful environment often accelerates the transition from adolescence to reproductive life. On the other hand, the death of a father can reduce the financial support for children and thus lower their standard of living (lack of parental resources), which in turn can delay marriage, especially when the marriage of offspring required parental support. The study examined the relationship between the loss of a father in childhood (children <15 years) and in adulthood (≥15 years) and the age at which sons and daughters did marry. Individual histories of men and women from Poznań were derived from population registration cards of Poznań residents. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the death of a father accelerated the marriage of a daughter by more than 3 years. In the case of sons, the loss of the father did not affect the timing of the wedding.

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father’s loss, psychological stress, economic background, social roles, population registration cards

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