However, even in this context, patrician fathers were dismayed to see the lengths to which their sons took this trend.
Men sought to endow each son with sufficient land to establish a separate household.
Another informant lived with a mentally disabled son with learning difficulties, and had lost a second son as a result of political violence.
No choice was provided, inducing her to accept the sleeping arrangement decided by her son.
These households were primarily feminine households with no spouses, sons, grandsons, brothers or other male kin, although several had male servants.
One granddaughter is the daughter of the co-resident son whose wife left him soon after the child's birth.
In all three populations, new heads were almost always the sons or grandsons of the previous head (72 to 79 per cent).
Permutations of the ranks (whether of sons, grandsons or the pools of sons plus grandsons) were performed within sires.
