Comment Puritans don't date! (Score 1) 428
>With permission and under strict supervision >the boy would call on the girl many times over
This, of course, is nearly 180 degrees away from modern American dating where the young couple go *away* from parental supervision and often resent involving the families in their relationship. A lot of the dating practices came to be after the Industrial Revolution and really hit full stride in the 1920s, when social mores/restrictions were lifted. The couple would also be unable to practice the courtship of the Puritans because most families simply did not have the room in the house for it. They would go out on the town to sample the city life.
Courtship - involved the families, supervised, designed to lead to marriage.
Dating - isolated from the families, less supervision, marriage not the goal (only a possibility).
This, of course, is nearly 180 degrees away from modern American dating where the young couple go *away* from parental supervision and often resent involving the families in their relationship. A lot of the dating practices came to be after the Industrial Revolution and really hit full stride in the 1920s, when social mores/restrictions were lifted. The couple would also be unable to practice the courtship of the Puritans because most families simply did not have the room in the house for it. They would go out on the town to sample the city life.
Courtship - involved the families, supervised, designed to lead to marriage.
Dating - isolated from the families, less supervision, marriage not the goal (only a possibility).
