Moving on, New England families were much better off that families of the South. The families of the New England area migrated together and family was important to them. Women were urged to get married around the age of twenty and have children every two years for as long as possible, which accounted for the growing population. The children were taught how to be obedient from a young age, so they grew into well rounded young adults. While New England families life thrived and both men and women lived up to the age of seventy, the South was disease ridden, which led to a shortened life span by about ten years. The number of men heavily outnumbered women. Families were not common in the South, and the ones that remained together were very weak.
