WHAT WAS LIFE LIKE IN ROME FOR A FAMILY

THE POWER OF ROMEN MEN

• Punish anyone or kill anyone
• Could sell the children to slavery
• They were called paterfamilias

WOMEN

• Married in teen years
• House work

HOUSES IN ROME

• If rich lived with all family members
• If poor lived in a wood or brick house
• Rich people lived out of the city
• Poor people lived in the city

CHILDREN

• Children were not showed any affection
• Unwanted children were sold or killed
• No school
• Worked with parents

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• The Roman Empire in the first century . Pbs.org, n.d. Web. 6 Feb. 2015. .
• http://www.pbs.org/empires/romans/empire/family.html