Comments by "Big Blue" (@bigblue6917) on "The Resurrectionists" channel.

I'm old enough to remember the older version of the children being whipped soundly and sent off to bed. In 18th century it was not unheard of for middle-class parents to foster out their children from a few month old until they were toddlers. Jane Austen and her siblings went through this and it did cause emotional distancing. If someone was looking after fostered children it may well be an older woman who was doing it to earn a living in her old age. Of course in the 19th century these same middleclass parents would have a nanny to bring up their children, which, again, caused emotional distancing.
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Both my late parents, born in Britain in the 1930s, came from big families. My father was one of eight children and my mother was one of 10. Myself and my cousins all came from smaller families. One of the blessing of the TV.
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The migration theory is the most likely as it was a common practise during this period. The feelings of tragedy may well be because, unlike today, those that left would often never be seen again. So people may have been expressing their lose of loved ones. When people started migrating from Europe to America similar feeling were felt by both sides as there was every likelihood neither would see the other ever again. So parting was often felt more like a bereavement. So it is quite possible that this concentration on the loss has grown out of proportion and distorted what actually happened.
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Thank you for the video. Very enjoyable and informative as always. One idea put forward for Johnny only earning a penny a day was that he was on a piece-rate and so he only earned a penny because, as it says, he could not work any fast.
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