Colonial Error: The Colonial Family

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During the colonial error, the Native American, and Colonial families were forced into marriage at an early age. The Native American families were small in size, they suffered a high child mortality rate, and their children were forced to start work at an early age. In all respects, the English women were sold to marriage. The father and husband were head of the household. The Colonial family worked together as a unit both socially and economically, as opposed to the families in the south, there family life differed. Hunting, entertaining, and politics were there main priority. The African American, and Slave family were not allowed to marry, they performed their own marital ceremonies. My feelings based on the different historical perspectives,