Abstract
In the second volume of Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville discussed the influences of democracy upon the family. In this sociological reflection, he praised highly the American family and the American woman. The principal characteristics which Tocqueville found in the family life of Jacksonian America were good morals, marriages always based on love (mercenary or forced marriages were rarely seen as in Europe), the absence of obstacles to intermarriage between classes, children’s independence, young girls’ self-determination, wives’ voluntary subordination to their husbands, and so on.
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