Klassen S
Department of Economic History, Lund University, Sweden.
J Fam Hist. 1999 Jan;24(1):35-52. doi: 10.1177/036319909902400103.
Although they lacked the ideological and economic advantages of patriarchal authority, women in eighteenth-century France were no less likely than men to receive support in their old age from friends and family. Elderly women rarely lived on their own, and when they could not rely on their children for support, they found care in more distant kin and friends. This support was not derived from economic coercion but from a vague sense of moral duty. Informal networks of care sufficed for both the rich and the poor except in cases of extreme illness.
尽管18世纪法国的女性缺乏父权制权威的意识形态和经济优势，但她们在老年时从朋友和家人那里获得支持的可能性并不比男性小。老年女性很少独自生活，当她们无法依靠子女提供支持时，她们会在更远的亲属和朋友那里得到照料。这种支持并非来自经济强制，而是源于一种模糊的道德责任感。除了在身患重病的情况下，非正式的照料网络对富人和穷人来说都足够了。
