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At younger ages, a widow had more chances of remarrying (1 out of 5), but still less than widowers (1 out of 2).
As we have seen, never-married women rarely held land before marriage, although it was more common for remarrying widows to do so.
She had good reasons for remarrying but also good alternatives.
Thus, it should be kept in mind that, upon any marital dissolution, one had a risk of remarrying, migrating out or dying.
First, the proportion of widows remarrying declined during the early modern period.
For those who were still young when their spouse died, there was the alternative of remarrying.
On the one hand, they were generally discouraged from remarrying.
As expected, the remarriage risk of widows was more sensitive to age, in the sense that the risk of remarrying fell significantly as age increased.
The advantages of freedom from control and obedience were familiar features of texts considering the case for widows not remarrying.
A scrupulous husband might wait for two full years before remarrying, while his children completed their mourning obligations.
Placed at the bottom of the household hierarchy along with servants (recall the case of the ' little old woman ' in household twenty-five), they were virtually barred from remarrying.
While the presence of dependent children seems to have increased the likelihood of remarriage, widows with children all over the age of 12 conversely had few chances of remarrying.
It is also possible that the increasingly systematic provision of poor relief from the late sixteenth century onwards had a negative impact on the proportion of widows remarrying.
In the last half of the nineteenth century, negative attitudes towards elderly widows remarrying may have persuaded farmer widows to refrain from remarriage and to choose another option.
In this framework, couples separate when the utility that they can expect from remaining married falls below the utility that they can expect from divorcing and possibly remarrying.
