Figure 1.--Here a group of Italian children are playing near Bari, Apulia region in 1947. The boy looks to be about 13 years old and looks to be having a good time with his little sisters and their friends or perhaps cousins. |
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Another interesting topic is social and family ties and play. We seem to notice more mixed groups than we see in several other countries (America, Britain, and Germany). We mostly see boys and girls in America playing separately. That was also true in Italy, but we also see mixed groups. A factor here that many Italian schools were single gender schools. And we see boys watching over younger children in what looks like family settings in Italy. This was much less common in America and more likely to be done by older girls. We think this is something American boys might have though was only for girls. I recall a Norman Rockwell Saturdy Evening Post cover in which a well-dressed boy was being teased for pushing a pram with a baby sibling. This may have been something more common in Italian society. We suspect this reflects wider social and family relations we do not know a great deal about, but is worth pursuing as our play and family relations pages develop. There may also be regional difference, especially between southern and northern Italy. This is a section we have just begun to work on.
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