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Family con?t from Day 1 Children wife manages household gives autonomy in daily lives primary function is bearing children upper-class wives are frequently pregnant Alessandra Strozzi of Florence married at 16, bore 8 children in 10 years lower-class women nursed their own children and there fore bore less children, richer women had wet nurses in order to get pregnant more quickly childbirth is painful and has 10% rate of death for mothers Florentine merchant Gregorio Dati had 3 of 4 wives die in childbirth Florence 15th century: 50% of children born to merchant families die before 20
