family

IMPORTANCE OF THE FAMILY IN THE OLD EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION

For the ancient Egyptian society it was very important the paper that have the family inside the base of the society and its hierarchization, is for this reason that one of the Momentous events was the marriage which should be carried out soon since like we had mentioned the formation of the family before it was of great importance in the Egyptian society.

The appropriate age for that marriage would be 20 years for the man and enter 15 and 18 for the woman. These connections used to be concerted among the members of the family, always inside the same social class. The father's permission to carry out the wedding was an indispensable requirement. Concerted the marriage, you proceeded to the writing of a contract in which the contributions and the rights of both spouses were included, in terms of equality, what is provoking. For the celebration of the marriage it was not necessary any ceremony.

The divorce existed to the being one of the rejected parts, what motivated the abandonment of the home on the part of one of the spouses, generally the woman. The husband should maintain to the former-wife. The adultery could be punished until with the death, especially if the adulteress was the woman. But, according to the texts that have stayed, the Egyptian society was not excessively macho.

In conclusion the objective of the marriage was the procreation to assure the lineage and a decorous funeral for the parents. The creature would be breastfeed by the mother in the first three years; it seems to be that it didn't lapse a lot of time from the weaning to the beginning of the education. The father used to direct the educational process, teaching the son the family occupation in the shop or the store and finally the boy would begin as well as apprentice, system that you will continue in the medieval unions.