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read this book for an Independent Study course through Brigham Young University called "The Family in Europe", and it was a course option to take for my undergraduate program.
The course is based on studying the social history of European families,

Reading about Roman families and its relation to the law during the late Republic and early Imperial eras of Rome was fascinating.
My personal tastes are in Greek and Roman classical periods, and I thought this was a nice start to it all.
Reading this book led me to add tons of other books that Suzanne Dixon used as references, including Cicero, Virgil, and many others.


The book referred to The Twelve Tables, which was what "officially" establish the basis of Roman law, and how society was governed on that law.


The types of families that existed in Rome were many: the elite the wealthy and senate, other classes: freed slaves, soldiers, farmers, to name a few.


I gave the book four due to Dixon's writing style, It seemed rather choppy and she seemed to go on tangents in the first chapter, making it difficult to follow her argument at times.
The Roman Family by Suzanne Dixon is your basic overview of what constitutes typical Roman life.
The book provides discussion on the trends of research as well as contemporary comments on the Roman family.
Topics covered include the rights of the paterfamilias, marriage, filiifamilias, the life cycle and old age.
This was the major source for my class project for Roman History in graduate school an analysis of Roman marriage.
I remember thinking the book was really fascinating! Unfaithful spouses, divorce and remarriage, rebellious children, aging parentstoday's headlines are filled with issues said to be responsible for a "breakdown" of the traditional family.
But are any of these problems truly new What can we learn from the ways in which societies dealt with them in the past Suzanne Dixon sets the current debate about the family against a

broader context in The Roman Family, the first book to bring together what historians, anthropologists, and philologists have learned about the family in ancient Rome.
Dixon begins by reviewing the controversies regarding the family in general and the Roman family in particular.
After considering the problems of evidence, she explores what the Roman concept of "family" really meant and how Roman families functioned.
Turning to the legal status of the Roman family, she shows how previous studies, which relied exclusively on legal evidence, fell short of describing the reality of Roman life.
Many relations not recognized by lawthe slave family, for instance, or the marriage of imperial soldierswere tolerated socially and eventually gained some legal recognition.
Other topics include love and other aspects of the institution of marriage, the role of the children in the family, how families adjusted to new members, and how they dealt with aging and death.
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