Conception of childhood as a social and historical category.

By MM0712
  • 354

    St. Augustine’s cry

    St. Augustine’s cry
    St. Augustine’s cry, “Give me other mothers and I will give you another world,”
  • Period: 354 to

    Relevant data

    It is considered that the 1968 essay was the first but it has to be taken into account that writers have searched and written about childhood but simply do not keep a good record and consider that most of the works are distorting childhood history in the times where they were written
  • 1400

    SIGLO XV

    Children were thought to be bad by birth, and then assume they are helpless and should be cared for by someone
  • 1500

    XVI-XVII CENTURY

    the goodness of children is recognized by treating them as angles
  • Writers make known the abuses of childhood at that time in an encrypted form

    Writers make known the abuses of childhood at that time in an encrypted form
    It is considered that some writings show in an encrypted way that child abuse was seen in this century, a clear example is when Philippe Aries presents so much evidence of open sexual abuse of children that he admits that "playing with children's private parts was part from a generalized tradition "he continues to describe a" traditional "scene where a stranger throws himself on a small child while traveling on a train.
  • CENTURY XVIII

    CENTURY XVIII
    infant is defined but as being incomplete, as if it were primitive
  • High mortality in children

    It was discovered that children's accidents were taken lightly and the causes of the problems were not sought one of the reasons that historians give to justify the number of deaths of the time, which was high, is that children are they used to leave them alone, without adult supervision, I could say that from that conclusion I now recommend the supervision of infants.
  • Payne

    He was the first to examine the broad reach of infanticide and brutality towards children in the past, especially in ancient times
  • BEGINNING OF CHILD RESEARCH

    In an article published in 1968 before the Association for Applied Psychoanalysis, describing an evolutionary theory of historical change in relations between parents and children, and that, since historians had not yet had the job of writing childhood history.
  • Sigmund Freud

    Sigmund Freud
    Since Freud, of course, our view of childhood has acquired a new dimension.
  • XX-XXI CENTURY

    Children are recognized as a category in which children are social subjects of law