During the time of the Puritans, America was just beginning to be populated with Whites and the 13 colonies starting to take place. Now Puritans can’t be found as easily, nonetheless, they weren’t so different from us. Their religious beliefs, family structure, civil rights—today we have thankfully made improvements. On 8 June 2018 Jami Montross, 50 years young—my mother who was born and raised right here in Idaho, answered some of my questions on her thoughts of the Puritans. We began our interview with an introduction to the Puritans. They were members of a religious group that migrated to America in hopes of reforming the church—to purify it from its Catholic practices—however, their reform didn’t last long because of the new way they lived. In the newly formed colony, citizens lived on farm and far away from each other. This made it hard to go to the church and in turn the numbers of the church declined. Instead they relied on each other and held services in their home or a with a close by neighbor. Family was everything during …show more content…
They used family for getting good business deals, and that it was very important for the children to find their “calling,” and the families made sure of it. Knowing this, do you think that providing homes and futures for children could have been and alternative motive to migrate to America? “I’m not sure. I know the Puritans were very religious people and family mattered to them, but didn’t they neglect their children for most of the childhood. An if that’s true than it kind of seems like they didn’t really care about the children, for anything other than business and money.” –Jami Montross. It is true that the Puritans tended to send their children off to other families while they were growing up, and most children ended up being raised by servants, or anybody other than the family; an depending on who they were family with, they could get lower priced deals on