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450 BCE
Rome
Education was focused in a physical way, there was a great diference between the conception of women and men. -
1 BCE
Infanticide
Considered as a primitive birth control method -
300
Christianism
Infanticide is seen as sin.
Role of parents is reinforced. -
374
Law against infant murders
Murdering an infant means legal consequences -
400
Abandonment
Includes selling children, sending them away, adoption, abandonment. -
1200
Middle age
Children as small adults, it must be educated in order to be reformed. -
1300
Renaissance
More appreciation of children. School as an institution and education is valued in this stage. -
Industrialisation
Child labour was common during preindustrial times, however, children were especially hired in factories and mines where conditions were not safe.
This led to campaigns and reforms that attacked child labour that ended in legal intervention in order to protect children -
Children rights
Protection to those children living in harsh condition, exposed to cruelty, work, poverty, diseases. -
New concept of childhood
Children are seen as beings with specific needs. Since there is more vulnerability during this age, there needs to be more protection.