Changes in Position of Childhood
- Created by: kirsty.smith98
- Created on: 11-05-16 11:11
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- The change in the Position of Childhood
- March of Progress View
- The family has become child-centred
- Children are the focal point of the family
- Have high aspiration for their children
- Parent invest a lot of time into their children, emotionally and economically
- Over that last few years the position of children has changed positively
- Children have become more valued, cared for, protected, educated and have better health care rights
- Laws that protect them from explotation and harm
- Better health care and standard of living means higher chance of survival
- Higher standard of living and smaller family sizes (5.7 births in 1860's- 1.84((1.5)) births in 2006) increase change of survival
- The family has become child-centred
- The Conflict View
- Neglect and Abuse
- Child line report that in a year they get over 20,000 calls from children reporting either sexual or physical abuse
- In 2006, 31,400 children were on the child protection regester
- Control over children's time and space
- 'No school children' signs in shops
- Increase close surveillance over children in public areas
- Fears about road safety and stranger danger has led to less independent travel
- In 1971 Hilman found that 80% of 7-8 yr olds were aloud to travel to school alone, this reduced to 9% in 1990s
- Control how fast they grow up as they decide whether a child is 'too young' to do certain tasks
- Adults control daily routine of children
- Control over children's bodies
- Control how they are touched, nurtured and disciplined
- Told how to touch their own bodies, not to pick their nose
- Control how they sit and walk. How they dress
- Control over children's access to resources
- Law exclude them from part-time employment
- Child benefits go to parents, not the child
- 'Pocket money' is restricted
- Inequalities amongst children
- Ethnic differences- Asian parents are seen to be more strict
- Not all children share the same status or experiences
- Class differences- Children of laborers are more likely to suffer from hyperactivity
- Poor mothers have low birth weight which leads to delayed physical and intellectual development
- Gender difference- Boy are more likely to be able to go out alone before girls.
- Inequalities between children and adults
- Argued that it is protection
- Prevention from paid work- segregates them and makes them powerless
- View described as 'Child liberationism'
- Neglect and Abuse
- March of Progress View
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