Toxic childhood- child's emotional and physical well-being has been harmed by social trends
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Margot and Dixon (conflict)
State the UK children have some of the highest rates of obesity, self harm and alcohol abuse
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Postman (conflict)
Childhood is disappearing as children are increasingly given adult responsibilities
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Brannen (conflict)
Found that Asian parents are more likely to be stricter to their daughters
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Opie (MOP)
Argues with Postman saying that there are still embedded elements of children's culture. e.g. songs and games
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Jenks (MOP)
Argues that Postman underestimates the controls still in place on children
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Katz
Found that Sudanese children roam freely both within their own villages and for kilometres outside of it
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Cunningham (conflict)
The area in which 8 year olds are allowed to travel alone has shrunk to one ninth of what it was a generation ago
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UNICEF (2014)
Found that one in girls around the world experience serious sexual violence
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Hillman (MOP and fem)
Argued that boys are more likely to be allowed certain freedoms like crossing or cycling on roads and going out after dark
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Wagg
Childhood is socially constructed , there is no single universal childhood experience.
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Aries (MOP)
Showed that in the medieval times childhood did not exist as a separate status from adults, children just started straight away with roles in the community
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Benedict
Found that children from more simple, non-industrial societies are treated differently from their western counterparts in 3 ways. 1.take responsibilities at a younger age 2.less value placed on obedience 3.their sexual behaviour is often viewed diffe
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Womack (conflict)
Reports that Britain's children are said to be the unhappiest in the West.
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Rees (conflict)
Found that in England an estimated 9% of young people run away from home overnight on at least one occasion each year
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Holmes
Samoan village study- being too young was never a reason for a child to be excluded from an activity
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Shorter (MOP)
Suggested that parental attitudes were very different in the middle ages, high rates of death amongst infants was an example of a difference
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Lloyd De Mause (MOP)
Believed that the experience of childhood was steadily improving
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Gittens (conflict)
Age Patriarchy- younger people are controlled and dominated by others based solely on age.
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Firestone (conflict)
Suggests that the culture of extensive care and protection that has developed in westernised childhood simply is another form of oppression
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Hockey and James (conflict)
Children often seek to resist the restrictive western childhood by acting older, smoking etc.
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Howard (conflict)
Children born into poor families are more likely to die in infancy or early childhood and more likely to suffer serious illness
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Front
Margot and Dixon (conflict)
Back
State the UK children have some of the highest rates of obesity, self harm and alcohol abuse
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