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Group portrait of a Euro-American family: a father standing, wearing a white-collared shirt and a dark-colored suit; a mother, sitting, wearing a yellow dress with a white color, her hair hair curled in ringlets; and their son, standing in front of the father, wearing a blue gown.
The Williamson Family by John Mix Stanley (c. 1841)

Influenced by political republicanism amid and after the American Revolution, households and attitudes about domestic life in the early United States underwent a trend away from the economic motivations, patriarchal authoritarianism, and publicly porous structures conventional during the colonial period in favor of practices and outlooks that prioritized marital romance, filial affection, and privacy from others, a domestic arrangement that historians have called the republican family.

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An eighteenth-century ideal of order and restraint gave way to a "romantic" insistence on the importance of personal feelings, love and affection, and piety.

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