Women Coming Of Age

In upper social class, young women may have been sent to an aristocrat woman’s house hold to be her lady in waiting. This was to teach her how to be a wife and how to manage her aristocratic household when she marries. For the young men in upper social class they may have gone off to University taking up an apprenticeship or entered into court service. At this point in a child’s life cycle historians can determine how their adulthood would be performed. The rich would have a safety net and not need to worry about living in poverty or starving. Adolescents were raised to learn how to manage estates and find their companion. However, this part of the life cycle shows that adolescents were sent away instead of taking in the family home. Parents were more inclined to send children away to learn a trade or their proactive duties. The strong family dynamic was not the case were it was broken sooner than it is today. …show more content…
For young men of England the determination of their adult was twenty one. This was the time they would be able to inherit land and join military service. For young women it all depended on if they were married. In Medieval England if a young women was married she could inherit land at age fourteen, if she was single the age would be sixteen. Thus, emotional and psychological development really did not pertain to young women and their coming of age. Corresponding with what History of the family historians have researched that it only mattered if she was married or single. Men were different due to patriarchal system, and they were to take over the family property early if their father was too old, passed away and in most cases twenty one was the coming of age to help make sure the household economic finical standing followed smoothly to the