Family life in Ancient Rome

3. What was not allowed to be shown to children in Roman families?
5. If a woman could not have a baby, whose fault was it considered?
7. What did Roman parents place around a newborn infant's neck?
8. If a slave had purchased or had earned freedom what were they now called?
9. Marriages between elite families were based on what?
10. If a poor family could not afford to feed their children they would ___ them into slavery.
11. What part of Roman life was very important to the family?
13. Slaves were freed or ___ if they provided good service to the family.
14. An animal was __ and the entrails were read before a marriage to see if the gods aproved.

1. The oldest male of the family.
2. Unlike modern times, Roman families babies were born at ___ rather than the hospital.
4. What was a fathers power in his family called?
6. What age were children considered very lucky if they lived til then.
11. The father of the house made what kind of marriages for his children.
12. True or false? Wealthy girls were married very young.