Childhood in history

  • 1800 BCE

    Classic Period

    Classic Period
    The first conception of child was Children were considered an adult project that lacked the qualities to be developed. In addition, the concept of intellectual education began and children were educated about laws, morality and obligations
  • 950 BCE

    Rome & Grece

    Rome & Grece
    Start violence against children begins, believing that through punishment they would be better soldiers
  • Period: 400 BCE to 300 BCE

    Changes in thought

    Begins the thought that childhood is the most important stage for the development and education of human nature
  • 300

    New rules

    New rules
    In this century law and public opinion begin to believe that infanticide is wrong
  • 787

    Dateo of Milan

    Dateo of Milan
    Born the first asyllum for children
  • 1201

    Middle ages

    Middle ages
    It was thought that the child was an inferior state of a superior state, the adult being.
    Children in this century were sent to crusades and education to arts and sciences were only for adults
  • 1405

    Giovanni Domminici´s book

    Giovanni Domminici´s book
    The book that talks about the limits of the innocence of children's minds is published, in order to begin reducing sexual abuse in children
  • Toilet class

    Toilet class
    Begins the teaching of using toilet to children
  • End of infanticides

    End of infanticides
    Los infanticidios eran comunes en niños legitimos e ilegitimos until that century
  • Convention on the Rights of the Child

    Convention on the Rights of the Child
    The United Nations define child as "child means every human being below the age of eighteen years unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier." in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)
  • PRESENT AND FUTURE

    PRESENT AND FUTURE
    All these changes in history have allowed children of the present to be as they are thanks to the passing of time and the thoughts of great people and organizations, today they are treated in a manner appropriate to how they were before