FAMILY

Families in our days are usually composed by a father which is generally the head of the family, by a mother and children; this is what we find usually in a normal family. Sometimes we can find some exceptions, such as cases where the woman is on board of her family, or children who are rise by their grandparents (well, that’s what we can find in western world).

For Hittites families, the relationship in a common family core were not as different as in the occidental world, a common family core was composed with a father who had the task of feeding his family, the mother who rise the children. However, marriage was not so important, only for the government and the families marriage had a kind of importance, because for their gods order and prosperity had much more relevance.

Often we use to think that in ancient civilizations women had an irrelevant task as citizens, but in this culture was not like that, for example, if a woman lost her husband because he died in a battle or working, she can get marry again or not, that was her choice, she could work for her family or not, anyway, it was a civilization with a high sense of culture and humanity (among them).

For kids were not so easy, it is known that when the older son birth twelve years old, he had to enjoy to the army until he was thirty five, whit that age he could decide if stay in the army or stay in home, any case, open and big wars were not so common, because Hittites was one of the four huge civilizations.