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Period: 5000 BCE to 235
Childhood in Ancient Greek and Rome
In ancient Greek and Roman culture, the abandonment of children, most typically through either exposure or sale into slavery, was common. Ancient Greece and Rome vs. The Present -
Period: 301 to Dec 31, 1299
Abandoning Mode (4th to 13th Century A.D.)
Once parents began to accept the child as having a soul, the only way they could escape the dangers of their own projections was by abandonment Abandonment nowadays -
Period: 476 to Dec 31, 1453
Infanticidal Mode (Antiquity to 4th Century AD.)
Parents routinely resolved their anxieties about taking care of children by killing them, it affected the surviving children profoundly. For those who were allowed to grow up, the projective reaction was paramount, and the concreteness of reversal was evident in the widespread sodomizing of the child. Childhood in the Middle Ages -
Period: 476 to Dec 31, 1492
Middle Ages (V to XV century)
Children were considered "little adults", their parents had little if any emotional connection. Overall, children -especially girls- were driven as quickly as possible out of the home and into adult roles -marriage-. -
Jan 1, 1088
University of Bologna was founded
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Period: Jan 1, 1088 to Dec 31, 1167
First Universities appear
Universities started to appear to train physicians, lawyers, and government officials, and (mostly) priests. Students entered as young as 13 and stayed for 6 to 12 years. -
Jan 1, 1150
The University of Paris was founded
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Jan 1, 1167
Oxford University was founded
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Period: Jan 1, 1301 to Dec 31, 1500
Renaissance
Concerns about children and childhood began to arise, studies became more importante among the wealthiest. -
John Locke (1632-1734)
"The well educating of their children is so much the duty and
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In his famous book about childhood, Emile, Rousseau emphasizes that “the only habit which a child should…form is that of forming none.” -
The idea of Childhood in the 19th century
"One could know what really happened in the nineteenth-century American home by reading Tom Sawyer" Adventures in the book, mirror Mark Twain’s real life adventures. His greatest inspiration for this novel was his mother, his friend Will Bowen and the slaves that he encountered as a child. He mirrored the character of Tom Sawyer after himself. The influence of Childhood in a writer -
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UNICEF
The Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1989 and ratified as of August 1997 by all but two of the world’s countries, provides clear principles and standards for the protection of children from violence, and for the treatment of child perpetrators of violence. Children and Violence -
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Childhood Nowadays
Childhood is a category or a part of society, like social class and age groups. In this sense children are members or incumbents of their childhoods. For the children themselves, childhood is a temporary period. For society, on the other hand, childhood is a permanent structural form or category that never disappears.
