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Children were thrown into rivers, flung into dung-heaps and cess trenches, “potted” in jars to starve to death, and exposed on every hill and roadside, “a prey for birds, food for wild beasts to rend”.
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The closeness between the word “baby” to the word to call grandmother “baba, babe” produce similar belief of that.
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In Ancient Greece Belief that the masturbating of boys would “hasten manhood,”
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The favorite sexual use of children was not fellatio, it was anal intercourse.
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Children in the past were under the fullest control of their parents, who had to agree to give them over to their abusers.
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Infanticide became forbidden in Europe and the Near East during the 1st millennium. Christianity forbade infanticide from its earliest times, which led Constantine the Great and Valentinian I to ban infanticide across the Roman Empire in the 4th century. -
Kissing or sucking on the breasts of little infants by adults.
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It was the common belief that infants had milk in their breasts which had to be expelled. The fourteenth-century Italian balia (wet-nurse) was instructed to “be sure and press his breasts often – to get out any milk there because it bothers him.” -
Most approved of beating children severely, and all allowed beating in varying circumstances except three, Plutarch, Palmieri, and Sadoleto, and these were addressed to fathers and teachers, and did not mention mothers. -
Only in the Renaissance that advice to temper childhood beatings began in earnest, although even then it was generally accompanied by approval for beatings judiciously applied.
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The usually stiff medieval mother-child portraits alternate with a few like these which show the wish that the child be a lover who would passionately embrace the mother. -
Parents gave to the Devil their children they promised to him in change for any petition. -
Childhood was a created term in the Early Modern Period, it was resulting in a tyrannical concept of the family which destroyed friendship and sociability and deprived children of freedom, inflicting upon them for the first time the birch and the prison cell. -
Some attempts were made in the seventeenth century to limit the beating of children, but it was the eighteenth century which saw the biggest decrease.
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In XVI century, people given all of it to children because of the feces. -
The average child of wealthy parents spent his earliest years in the home of a wet-nurse, returned home to the care of other servants, and was sent out to service, apprenticeship, or school by age seven, so that the amount of time parents of means actually spent raising their children was minimal.
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In the beginning of the eighteenth century, as a climax of the effort to bring child abuse under control, that parents began severely punishing their children for masturbation, and doctors began to spread the myth that it would cause insanity, epilepsy, blindness, and death. -
The earliest lives I have found of children who may not have been beaten at all. -
The first illustration of these closely interlocking concepts which we will examine is in an adult-child scene from the past. The year is 1739; the boy, Nicolas, is four years old. -
Shutting children up in the dark became quite popular. Children were put in “dark closets, where they were sometimes forgotten for hours.” -
The nineteenth century that the old-fashioned whipping began to go out of style in most of Europe and America.
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He said: “the custom once prevalent of terrifying young minds with stories of ghosts, is now universally reprobated, in consequence of the increasing stock of national good sense. But many yet living can place fears of supernatural agency, and of darkness, among the real miseries of childhood” -
Association should sponsor a team of historians who would dig back into the sources to uncover the major stages of child-rearing in the West since antiquity.
