House daughter
In the 19th century, a house daughter was a young woman who lived with a foreign family for a certain period of time in order to learn housekeeping . The house daughter was not a domestic servant , but should be treated like a family member.
Today, the term house daughter roughly corresponds to the term au pair . The origins of the au pair program come from Switzerland . There, merchants sent their daughters to families in parts of the country that spoke other languages, so that in return for household help and childcare, they could learn another language and receive an advanced education.
The house daughter was also a person under ancient Roman law and was referred to as filia familias . The house child was the child adopted under Roman law.
Individual evidence
- ^ Definition in Duden
- ↑ a b Andrea Althaus: About happiness in Switzerland? Female labor migration from Germany and Austria (1920-1965). Diss. Freiburg im Breisgau, Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-593-50704-0 , p. 138; limited preview in Google Book search
- ↑ The au pair program from then to now ( memento from June 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), aupairUSA.de
- ^ Theo Mayer-Maly : Roman law. Springer, Vienna / New York 1999, ISBN 978-3-211-83220-2 , p. 45 f.