[TI] Question

[Pwb Bova]

Hi Everyone,

     We have survived the great snow of 2008.  It was bad
here in Ohio.
     My grandmother came here in 1914 with her mother and
five sisters (Martinos').  My grandmother lived in Toledo,
with her husband and three children, but the other sisters
were in the Boston/Providence area.  My question revolves
around the fact that both my aunt and uncle stayed with an
aunt in Providence for extended periods of time.  My
stepmother thought it was terrible to send children to stay
for a year or more with someone else.   She is not Italian
and never knew my grandmother. My father is gone along with
everyone else so there is no one to ask.  There was no
apparent economical problem for my grandmother but she sent
her children to live periods of their teenage lives with
her sister in Providence.  Her sister was very well off
having married a Doctor but she had three children of her
own.  Is this unusual or was it a custom? 

Phil Bova