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- catalog description ""Judith S. Graham's close reading of Sewall's diary and family papers reveals that warmth, sympathy, and love often marked the Puritan parent-child relationship. She suggests that the special nature of childhood was a concept that parents understood well, and that there was a practical and clear purpose for the "putting out" of children. Graham provides a balance to accepted scholarship on Puritan life and offers new insights into the history of both early New England and the family."--Jacket.".