Egypt Family Research Paper

In Egypt family is a big part of life. It is how people learn how to live when their parents past. In every family there is a mother, a father, and children. Sometimes in a family widowed family members and unmarried family members live with them. To start a family you have to find someone you love to marry them.
Marriage is the beginning of everything. If you are a female your dream is always to marry a man, it’s your role. When a man and a woman get married, the woman takes care of the thing inside the house, and the man works outside. Shortly after people are married they have children. Some couples can not have children, so the adopt a child. If a husband died the woman and the children keep the property. If the husband divorces his wife the wife keeps the property and the husband has to pay her compensation.
When a male and a female get married they share a house. A house includes beds, small tables, stools, and chests. Chests, hold clothing, jewelry, and dishes. People used wood to construct the furniture. The couple use rushes and palm leaves for mats and baskets. Most people had statues of Bes and Taweret all around their house. Not all, but some families had cats, birds, dogs, and even monkeys. That is what most houses looked like.

Childbirth was a very dangerous thing.

Before a woman could get pregnant, they had to take a test to see if they were fertile enough. Most children didn’t make it past a couple of months. When a woman was having a child there were statues of Bes and Taweret all around because they are the gods and goddesses of women at childbirth. Once a child was born the woman screamed “Aneksi” which means “they belong to me.” A child brought lots of joy to a family. The parents chose the name that meant joy or happiness most of the time. If a child had a nickname it meant that they were loved very much. The woman would be in lots of pain after childbirth so they were given medicines and

amulets.
Children would get sick very easily when they were young. So, women would breastfeed their children because it made their immune system stronger. Parents got help from gods by tying amulets around their neck. If a child was very sick a nursing mother had to eat a mouse before they breastfed their child. Those are some of the ways the parents kept their children safe from illnesses.
When a child was young it education started right away. Girls, would learn from their mothers what life would be like when she was older. The boys learned from their fathers. Boys, would go out in the mornings with their father and do whatever their father's job was, with them. The girls would stay home and do house work with their mother. Sometimes the girls would work outside on in the fields when needed. That is how children were educated in ancient Egypt.
In ancient Egypt if a child got a nickname that meant they were loved very much. Most girls had a cat which they loved very much. Children were loved so much Egyptians put statues of nude women around which meant a fertile woman. Mothers were very close their children, children were breastfed until the age of three.
Once children reached the age of fifteen they could move out. Then they followed the same process their parents went through. If the women marry someone with lots of money they will watch their servants work, if they marry someone who doesn’t have a lot of money the work themselves in their house. The men decide whether they want to become a merchant, engineer, a scribe, farmer, and many more jobs were available. Once their parents had passed the oldest son will inherit somethings. The oldest son also gets to bury his father. That’s what happens when the members of the family got older.