The term household (German haushalt, haushaltung, French ménage) first became current in the late-14th century as a compound of the two nouns “house, hold” [4]. Primarily, this refers to the activity of “managing the affairs of a house” [4], or, as Krunitz’ Enzyklopädie has it, “the government of a domestic society and all the business related to it” [2]. The German terms haushalt and haushaltung were often used as if they meant the same thing as “H…