Sons Quotes
He had tripled the size of Rus, pulling together the disparate areas which had been under the thrall of the Golden Horde. The custom was when the Grand Prince died he left parts of his dominion to each of his sons and grandsons. However. Ivan changed that pattern and wanted one son to be the ruler over all of what was becoming a large unified state. After that his pattern was followed by all the Czars until the Russian Communist Revolution in 1917." Ivan the Great
It was one of the ironies of President Ronald Reagan that his policies and administration was very “pro family” and he advocated “family values” yet his personal relationships and parenting techniques with his own children left much to be desired.
England in contrast did not even educate many men in arithmetic and accounting and women not at all with the sexist English culture of the day. English merchants were notorious for selling their business at low prices as they got older unless they had an adult son with an aptitude for the business. The Dutch, with educated women could have a wife run a business if the husband died or was disabled, and allow children to grow up, thus keeping the business in the family, but more important for Holland, keeping the business thriving.
