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Period: 1200 BCE to 147 BCE
Ancient Greece
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650 BCE
Sexual abuses
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415 BCE
Spartan flagellation.
Antiquity is full of devices and practices un-known to later times, including shackles for the feet, handcuffs, gags, three months in “the block,” and the bloody Spartan flagellation contests, which often involved whipping youths to death. -
300 BCE
Liberal education
ever since Plato it has been known that child-hood is a key to this understanding. -
Period: 300 BCE to 400
Infanticidal Mode
Infanticidal Mode (Antiquity to Fourth Century AD.): The image of Medea hovers over childhood in antiquity, for myth here only reflects reality. -
Period: 27 BCE to 330
Roman empire
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120
Goad
hould further research show that the goad was also used on children in antiquity, it would put a different light on Oedipus's killing of Laius on that lonely road, for he was literally “goaded” into it – Laius having struck him “full on the head with his two-pointed goad.” -
310
Infanticide
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Period: 400 to 500
Begining of Cristianity
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Period: 400 to Feb 24, 1300
Abandoning Mode
Abandoning Mode (Fourth to Thirteenth Century AD): 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. -
Feb 23, 910
Jude persective
Despite Moses's injunction against corrupting children, the penalty for sodomy with children over 9 years of age was death by stoning, but copulation with younger children was not considered a sexual act, and was punishable only by a whipping, “as a matter of public discipline.” -
Feb 23, 1250
Laws in the middle ages
“If one beats a child until it bleeds, then it will remember, but if one beats it to death, the law applies.” -
Period: Feb 24, 1300 to
Ambivalent Mode
Ambivalent Mode (Fourteenth to Seventeenth Centuries): Because the child, when it was allowed to enter into the parents' emotional life, was still a container for dangerous projections, it was their task to mold it into shape. -
Feb 23, 1340
Innocence limits
Giovanni Dominici, writing in 1405, tried to set some limits to the convenient “innocence” of childhood;For in a child “granted that there will not take place any thought or natural movement before the age of five, yet, without precaution, growing up in such acts he becomes accustomed to that act of which later he is not ashamed ... -
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Intrusive Mode
Intrusive Mode (Eighteenth Century): A tremendous reduction in projection and the virtual disappearance of reversal was the accomplishment of the great transition for parent-child relations which appeared in the eighteenth century. -
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Socializing Mode
Socializing Mode (Nineteenth to Mid-twentieth Centuries): As projections continued to diminish, the raising of a child became less a process of conquering its will than of training it, guiding it into proper paths, teaching it to conform, socializing it. -
Children up in the dark
shutting children up in the dark became quite popular in the XVIII and XIX centuries -
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World War I
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children in the war
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UNICEF creation
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Helping Mode
Helping Mode (Begins Mid-twentieth Century): The helping mode involves the proposition that the child knows better than the parent what it needs at each stage of its life, and fully involves both parents in the child's life as they work to empathize with and fulfill its expanding and particular needs.
