Wet-nursing and fosterage were widely used in early modern Ireland. Despite the difficulties of reconstructing practices surrounding the nourishment and care of infants and young children, the limited surviving sources provide some evidence for the practical arrangements involved, the role of these practices in extending families and creating long-lasting ties of ‘fictive kinship’, the emotional and economic connections they forged and deeply held concerns that they might inspire and extend political disloyalty and disaffection. While fosterage is mostly associated with Gaelic communities, by the sixteenth century, a distinct brand of fosterage was significant to Old English families as well. New English and Protestant families also increasingly participated in networks referred to as fosterage, and references in the 1641 depositions testify to the degree to which these practices linked settlers and natives and the horror inspired by their abandonment.

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“亲情无止境”：爱尔兰的湿式护理、寄养和情感，c。1550–1720

早期现代爱尔兰广泛使用湿式护理和寄养。尽管围绕婴幼儿的营养和护理重建实践存在困难，但现存的有限资源为所涉及的实际安排、这些实践在扩大家庭和创造“虚构亲属”的长期联系方面的作用提供了一些证据，他们建立的情感和经济联系并深切担心他们可能会激发和扩大政治上的不忠和不满。虽然寄养主要与盖尔社区有关，但到了 16 世纪，一个独特的寄养品牌对古英国家庭也很重要。新的英国和新教家庭也越来越多地参与被称为寄养、