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1200
MIDDLE AGE
"man in miniature" children were supposed to be educated, also all children except royalty acted as servants, so they had to do all this chores and act like grown up. -
1300
AMBIVALENT MODE
Because the child, when it was allowed to enter into the parents’ emotional life, was still a container for dangerous projections, it was their task to mold it into shape. From Dominici to Locke there was no image more popular than that of the physical molding of children, who were seen as soft wax, plaster, or clay to be beaten into shape. -
1300
RENAISSANCE
We see the focus in the education of kids, the institutionalization of the school begins, although it must be taken into account that there were different educational models, adapted to the different social classes (nobility, bourgeoisie and working class). -
ABANDONMENT
The most extreme and oldest form of abandonment is the outright sale of children. Child sale was legal in Babylonian times, and may have been quite common among many nations in antiquity.
Another abandonment practice was the use of children as political hostages and security for debts, which also went back to Babylonian times. “quite customary to give young children as hostages to guarantee an agreement, and equally so to make them suffer for their parents’ bad faith. -
DISCIPLINE AND SEX
shutting children up in the dark became quite popular in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Children were put in “dark closets, where they were sometimes forgotten for hours.
The child in antiquity lived his earliest years in an atmosphere of sexual abuse. Growing up in Greece and Rome often included being used sexually by older men. -
SOCIALIZING MODE
As projections continued to diminish, the raising of a child became less a process of conquering its will than of training it, guiding it into proper paths, teaching it to conform, socializing it. The socializing mode is still thought of by most people as the only model within which discussion of child care can proceed.
Also, in the nineteenth century, the father for the first time begins to take more than an occasional interest in the child, training it. -
HELPING MODE
nvolves the proposition that the child knows better than the parent what it needs at each stage of its life, and fully involves both parents in the child’s life as they work to empathize with and fulfill its expanding and particular needs. There is no attempt at all to discipline or form “habits.” -
GENOVA DECLARATION
It is a declaration of a physician's dedication to the humanitarian goals of medicine, a declaration that was especially important in view of the medical crimes which had just been committed in German-occupied Europe. -
Convention on the Rights of the Child
s a human rights treaty which sets out the civil, political, economic, social, health and cultural rights of children. The Convention defines a child as any human being under the age of eighteen, unless the age of majority is attained earlier under national legislation.[4] -
CHILDHOOD OF TODAY
nowadays children are back up by many rights and institutions that do all possible so they can help any kid in any situation and guarantee their wellness. -
ANTIQUITY
In this age the infanticide was really serious and cruel were parents killed their kids.
Also the "infant as mother" was the common belief that infants had milk in their breasts which had to be expelled so they practiced of forcibly squeezing the delicate breasts of a newborn infant.
