Childhood

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  • 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'
    • 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

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