Examples of "Citizen-Mothers" in the following topics:
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- Unlike the colonial mother state of Britain, Anglo-American colonial representative government was an intensely localized process where elections and participation in assemblies and court trials were a fundamental aspect of proper civic life.
- Civic duty: Citizens have the responsibility to understand and support the government, participate in elections, pay taxes, and perform military service.
- Democracy: The government is answerable to citizens, who may change the representatives through elections.
- Equality before the law: The laws should attach no special privilege to any citizen, and government officials and wealthier citizens are also subject to the law.
- Freedom of speech: The government cannot restrict the citizen's right to criticize authority or voice opposition to the government.
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- Women were the center of the domestic sphere and expected to fulfill the roles of a calm and nurturing mother, a loving and faithful wife, and a passive, delicate, and virtuous creature.
- It also equated womanhood with motherhood and being a wife, declaring that the "perfection of womanhood (...) is the wife and mother. " The magazine presented motherhood as a woman's natural and most satisfying role, and encouraged women to find their fulfillment and contributions to society strictly within the home.
- Reflecting the ideal of true womanhood, Godey's considered mothers as crucial in preserving the memory of the American Revolution and in securing its legacy by raising the next generation of citizens.
- Oregon were based on the assumption that women's primary role was that of mother and wife and that women's non-domestic work should not interfere with their primary function.
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- So also cīvis, citizen; parēns, parent; etc.
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- Adams was wife to John Adams and mother to John Quincy Adams while Mercy Otis Warren was a political writer and propagandist.
- These organizations were initially relatively rare, however, and patriot women adopted what is now commonly called "Republican Motherhood," which meant instilling in their children republican values and ideals that would prepare them to be good citizens, so that the new American Republic could continue to prosper and persevere.
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- Condorcet was born in 1743 and raised by a devoutly religious mother.
- According to Condorcet, for republicanism to exist the nation needed enlightened citizens and education needed democracy to become truly public.
- Democracy implied free citizens and ignorance was the source of servitude.
- Although education could not eliminate disparities in talent, all citizens, including women, had the right to free education.
- Public education would form free and responsible citizens, not revolutionaries.
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- Governments in Europe are typically more active in governing the lives of their citizens than the U.S. government.
- A 2010 study by the United Nations Development Programme found that 62% of Chileans are opposed to full gender equality and expressed the belief that women should limit themselves to the roles of mother and wife.
- A common Japanese proverb that continues to influence gender roles is "good wife, wise mother. " The proverb reflects the still common social belief, encouraged by men and women alike, that it is in the woman's, her children's, and society's best interests for her to stay home and devote herself to her children.
- Immediately after World War II, the common image of womanhood was that of a secretary who becomes a housewife and mother after marriage.
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- In 1989 Demark was the first nation allow same sex couples to get married to provide equal rights to all citizens.
- These roles, such as the father as the breadwinner and the mother as the homemaker, are declining.
- Now, the mother is often the supplementary provider while retaining the responsibilities of child rearing.
- In western society in general, following separation a child will end up with the primary caregiver, usually the mother, and a secondary caregiver, usually the father.
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- At the end of the war, the fifteenth amendment, ratified in 1870, banned any state from denying the right to vote to any adult male citizen based on his race.
- Coupled with a strong set of shared interests, there was a great deal of incentive for Black citizens to vote.
- While these rules did not specifically restrict Black citizens from voting, Black people who were freed slaves and their descendants were disproportionately poor, less educated or illiterate, and so more likely to have their voting rights limited by these provisions.
- Obama had a Kenyan-born Black father, a white mother from the Midwest, and strong connections in the African American community in Chicago.
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- Republicanism assumed that a successful republic rested on the virtue of its citizens, and required intelligent and self-disciplined citizens to form the core of the new republic.
- Despite any gains, however, women largely found themselves subordinated, legally and socially, to their husbands, disenfranchised and with only the role of mother open to them.
- The ideal woman became one who stayed at home and taught her children how to be proper citizens.
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- Slaves could become freedmen--and thus citizens--if their owners freed them or if they purchased their freedom by paying their owners.
- Free-born women were considered citizens, although they could neither vote nor hold political office.
- Municipia were originally communities of non-citizens among Rome's Italic allies.
- Later,Roman citizenship was awarded to all Italy, with the result that a municipium was effectively now a community of citizens.
- Relief of a Roman family with the child in the middle, the father on the left, and the mother on the right.