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20,000 BCE
Prehistory
In Prehistory women was despised, generally girls were consider no usefull (for this reason they were killed) and boys consider usefull to the comunity. -
Period: 15,000 BCE to 374
Infanticide
The infanticide was present since the prehistory to 374 year when the Catholicism prohibit it. Generally children were killed to use their bones in buildings, contructions, etc. And where sacrified in rituals. -
1500 BCE
Greece in antiquity
In this time babies doesnt get a name until a few days of life, those baes stay more time with the mother.
Them when boys grew up to 7 years old they were taken by the army and were trained; and girls reached puberty at 12-13 years old and they could consider adults at 18 years old. -
600 BCE
Ancient Rome
Children was educate with the best effort of the family, they could play with friends and enjoy, however they were educated so strictly to be obedient and to respect the autority. Children that not be respectful could get expulsed by the male head of the family and get exiled (never allow return). -
367 BCE
Wet nursing
It was when fathers leave a child with a nurse who take care of him, however this situation the majority of times lead to abandonment. And in other cases for stranger reasons childs die in "rare accidents".
Sometimes they would be switched for other children in order to return them to the parents who required the services. -
335 BCE
Conception of childhood by Aristoteles
A child is an inmature human that could grew up and develop to be a mature human with the structure, form and function of an normal adult human. -
374
Infantidice was prohibited
The infanticide was consider homicide, the Catholicism start to put punishments to people that practice infanticide. -
442
The announcement of children in church
After the Council of Vaison, the finding of abandoned children was supposed to be announced in church -
450
Middle Age
Childhood was not recognized, children was viewed like an little adult (when the child learn to walk and speak).
The infanticide was still present, specially among legitimate female babies, illegitimate babies were killed regardless the gender. -
787
The first asylum for abandoned children was founded by Dateo De Milan
Asylum for abandoned children -
1256
Saint Thomas Aquinas
This Chacacter say that be child was a sin, the unique form to healing is grew up and turning into an adult -
Period: 1300 to
The renaissance
Children has more freedom, they was more indepedent.
Children go to the bed early, they was allowed to work at a age when they could. Girls were adult at 14 years and boys at 21. -
1340
Children like evil beings
In this time, the only thing worst than being a child was death itself. Children were considered as perverse creatures and there was nothing good on childhood. So they were constantly uderestimated, underated and mistreated. The only valuable thing about them was their workforce. -
Period: to
17th Century
The boys were likely to spend much less time at home with his
mother, and more out with the men working. If a child did
not go to school, she or he usually entered the work force by ten
to twelve, although poor children might be placed in service
at a younger age. -
Heroard about childhood
Heroard say that the physical punishment must be applied the necessary times to correct a behavior, because he can assure from his experience that nothing has done so much good in life. -
Industrial revolution
Thanks to this moment in time, children weren't needed to work any longer. And those who were sons and daughters of wealthy people were raised by their own servants, until they were old enough to find a job, there was no relationship between children and parents.
Even at a time like this, "childhood" was still conceived as the worst state, more vile and abject thing on earth. -
Period: to
Ambivalence
The child was allowed to enter the life of the parents, their task was to mold it, to shape it.
Nowadays we can see through ambivalent double and opposite stimuli, that in the physical contact the children receive from their attachment figures. -
Rousseau
Rosseau say that children innately are good, they are good by nature. People also started to think this, so the education became a pillar to the develop of the child, so this education have to be adapted to the characteristics that the child have when born. -
Freud perspective
Freud theory was about parent-child relationships and their correlation with social change. He say that the role of children is so important to have psychological stability while the childs grow. -
Helping mode (middle of xx century)
This method is based on all the needs of the child for its proper development and for this he needs the help of his parents, dedicating time to his children. The child does not receive blows or repressions and the have to apalogize if give a scream or disrespect -
Unicef (children as the future of society)
Children become consider the future of society.
in this moment the children become a priority and laws defend child and give an apropiatte enviroment to grew up. -
Nowadays (2018)
Actually, children have the same rights than adults. Childhood is a fundamental time because is when learn and develop attitudes and behaviors. Children are the future of our society and they deserve love and protection.
