This is actually very complicated and varied not only by time period but also region, religion and social status through various points in history.
But, in the time and place this story got written down in the form that most closely resembles the one we tell today this was not the case for most families. It is unclear whether the fact that the 3 bears had 3 beds was a product of a time when that was more common, or was in fact the tell of a more modern (though still outdated now) phenomenon. You see, long after it was almost universally true in the developed world that married couples shared a bed (there were still exceptions, as pointed out above this is complicated) married couples still were portrayed as sleeping separately in media. This was done to prevent the implication of sex and keep the media clean. It remained common in television for years. The flintstones were the first married couple to share a bed on television. In Ray Bradbury's "Farenheit 451°" the married couple
Have separate beds not because that was common at the time. It wasn't even common in books at the time. Bradbury's work has the married couple in separate beds because if the fear that people would base their lives around what they saw I television and not what example their parents set for them.
Truly fascinating take on art mimicing life mimicing art.
Anyway. There is no good way to know exactly why the 3 bears had 3 beds, but we can be pretty sure that baby bear wasn't holding the family together. In that era. If the family needing being held together socialital pressures to make it work no matter what would have been more than enough and the stress if raising a child who might well die from a disease because vaccines didn't exist yet definitely wasn't helping the family structure.
A documentary on bed sharing throughout history, or the goldilocks were momma bear and poppa bear are struggling to make things work because society says they have no choice while baby bear has been I'll. Goldilocks breaks in while the bears are in the hospital(she's an orphan, obviously) and then the bears have to come home to find and orphan girl sleeping in their sick son's (their only child I will remind you, which suggest Momma bear is unable to have more) bed;after breaking his things?
But, in the time and place this story got written down in the form that most closely resembles the one we tell today this was not the case for most families. It is unclear whether the fact that the 3 bears had 3 beds was a product of a time when that was more common, or was in fact the tell of a more modern (though still outdated now) phenomenon. You see, long after it was almost universally true in the developed world that married couples shared a bed (there were still exceptions, as pointed out above this is complicated) married couples still were portrayed as sleeping separately in media. This was done to prevent the implication of sex and keep the media clean. It remained common in television for years. The flintstones were the first married couple to share a bed on television. In Ray Bradbury's "Farenheit 451°" the married couple
Truly fascinating take on art mimicing life mimicing art.
Anyway. There is no good way to know exactly why the 3 bears had 3 beds, but we can be pretty sure that baby bear wasn't holding the family together. In that era. If the family needing being held together socialital pressures to make it work no matter what would have been more than enough and the stress if raising a child who might well die from a disease because vaccines didn't exist yet definitely wasn't helping the family structure.