My group’s topic is families in Elizabethan England. Society often has different views on what a family should look like. One of my main subtopics is what an ideal family was. The household always had a mother and a father who never took care of the children; wet nurses and servants were employed for this reason. Only rich families could afford this which is one of the main differences between rich and poor families. Poor households were smaller because of death and a lack of money. Mortality is another influence on the Elizabethan families. Re-marriages were because of death, which was my next topic in the newscast. The marriages were decided by the parents and the family disowned them if they wanted to pick their own spouse. As a
