Childhood
- Created by: A-bee
- Created on: 20-05-17 15:45
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- Childhood
- Pre-indust
- contributed to the family economy - chores/work
- short lived
- Philippe Aries - no emotional bond (IMR was high)
- severe punishments - 96% of prisoners hanged under 21
- Victorian (late 1800s)
- separate from adults
- relied on adults for protection
- 1870 - compulsory education
- reasons for modern childhood
- 1. 1989 Child Protection act
- 2. industiralisation
- 3. laws restricting child labour
- 4. compulsory education
- 5. economic market directed at childhood
- 6. laws that only apply to children
- is childhood disappearing?
- Neil Postman (1994)
- same rights as adults, clothing and committing adult crimes
- girls magazines - spice girls
- criticized for focusing too much on TV
- Melanie Phillips
- too many rights
- media encourages sexuality - leads to self-harm, drug abuse, depression, eating disorders
- Brooks (2001)
- argues 'cotton wool kids'
- Neil Postman (1994)
- varied childhoods in Britain
- Gender - socialization for school, boys - competitive girls - conformist, girls have a 'bedroom' culture
- Ethnicity - higher rates of poverty (Pakistani and Bangladeshi), school prep - Afro-Caribbean boys
- Class - Joseph Rowntree Foundation (2007) - children of a lower income are aware of their disadvantage, school is negatively effected
- other societies childhoods
- Nigerian witch children
- innocent children are tortured, abandoned and killed by their own parents - accused of being witches
- child soldiers in Somalia
- children as young as nine
- fronts lines + suicide missions
- 300,000 around the world
- gypsy children
- many never attend school and are illiterate
- married in their teens
- Nigerian witch children
- Pre-indust
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