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730 BCE
Roman´s hard methods
Roman, used to teach their children with violence, using really hard methods. -
650 BCE
Infanticide
Every child with a physical deffect was killed. They were considered as monsters. -
640 BCE
Abortion
It was common to practice abortion because it was legal, especially on rome and greece. -
500 BCE
Education
Liberal education is born in greece, It defends the need for male citizens to be educate until puberty.In Rome the liberal education loses relevance. Schooling is divided into three stages: Ludus (7-12 ages), Grammar (12-16 ages), Rhetoric (from1 -16ages) -
300
Abandoning
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, whether to the wet nurse, to the monastery or nunnery, to foster families, to the homes of other nobles as servants or hostages, or by severe emotional abandonment at home. -
354
Christianity and middle ages
From the year 354 children are considered as defenseless and dependent ("children are a hindrance", "children are a yoke"). During the fifteenth century in the conception of childhood it is observed how "children are bad by birth". -
390
Son over daughter
Male was better considered because it was thought that he could help the family economy more decisively than a girl. -
1100
Children´s market
In 12th century the church decrees that children younger that 7 years old cannot be sold. We can observe that in this century children were still considered as an object. Children were sold by their parents to their masters to be servants and became their property. -
1400
Infant mortality
Caused by hunger, illness or simple accidents. For these reasons, the small child was very little valued and only children who exceeded the second childhood acquired value. -
1400
Renaissance
Education was only for children of wealthy families. -
1400
Child explotation
The poverty of the European population meant the incorporation of the child into the labor market from the age of five. In a way, the child was "adult slave" and the girls were given to do domestic work from the age of six. -
Jean Jacques Rousseau
has had a significant influence on thinking about childhood and education from the later eighteenth century until the present. Rousseau’s work Emile: or On Education (1762) is concerned, like all of his major writings and like those of many of his Enlightenment contemporaries.His work contains a series of principles on how to educate children. -
Friedrich Fröbel
Promotes Kindergarten -
Declaration of the Rights of the Child
Child: "a human being able to develop physically, mentally, socially, morally and spiritually with freedom and dignity" -
Children's rights convention
The International Convention on Human Rights, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations, changes the focus by considering girls and boys as protection subjects and not only as objects of the same. -
Political Constitution
Political Constitution of 1991 states that the rights of the child must prevail over other people. This article seeks to recognize the fundamental rights of children, the obligation of the state, society and the family. -
Lost of childhood
The influence of the media, television and internet on children and adolescents is worrying, because they take as a prototype or example of what they want to be those boys and girls who appear consuming alcohol, cigarettes or drugs, or that Driven by the obsession of extreme thinness end up suffering from eating disorders such as bulimia or anorexia. In this way, through the television the world of adults has burst with all its crudity in the children, making childhood innocence disappearing.
