The Future of Childhood

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What does the March of Progress View argue?
That over the past few years centuries, the position in western societies has been steadily improving and is better than it ever has been
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What does Lloyd De Mause say about comparing today with the 'dark past'?
'The more likely children were to be killed, abandoned, beaten, terrorised and sexually abused'
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What does Aries argue?
That children today are more valued, protected and better educated as well as being in better health and having more rights than previous generations
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What does better healthcare mean?
Babies have a much better chance of survival, 1900-infant mortality rate 154 per 1000 births, today- 4 per 1000 births
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What does Palmer say?
That there is an increase in ADHD, substance abuse and self-harm
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What is toxic childhood a result of?
Unhealthy food, a lack of play in natural surroundings, poor sleep patterns, little time to interact within the family and decline in emotional security
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What does Palmer's research indicate?
That children are being deprived of traditional childhood and family life q
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Every year what do children become?
More distractible, impulsive and self-obsessed. They are less able to learn, to enjoy life and thrive socially
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What does Palmer note?
That all of the negative trends are reversible, she points to examples across Britain and Europe of groups actively creating a 'detox childhood'
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What does Postman argue?
That childhood is 'disappearing at a dazzling speed'
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What is the evidence supporting Postman's theory?
Children are given the same rights as adults, the disappearance of children's traditional unsupervised games, the similarity of adults& children's clothing, children committing 'adult' crimes such as murder
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Key factors linking to Postman's study from the Middle Ages?
Most people were illiterate, speech was the only skill needed for participation in the adult world, children were able to enter the adult world from an early age, there was no division between the world of a child and that of an adult
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Key factors linking to Postman's study from the 19th Century?
Childhood emerged as a separate status along with mass literacy, the printed world created an information hierarchy; a sharp division between adults who can read&children who cannot, this gave adults the power to keep certain knowledge from children
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What does Postman believe TV destroys?
The information hierarchy
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Unlike the printed world, what doesn't TV require?
Special skills to access it, it makes information available to adults and children alike
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The boundary between adult and child is broken down, what does this mean?
The ignorance and innocence of childhood is replaced by knowledge and cynicism
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What does Opie argue against Postman?
That childhood is not disappearing, based on research into children's unsupervised games, rhymes and songs, she argues that there is strong evidence of the continued existence of a separate children's culture
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How is Postman's study valuable?
It shows how different types of communication technology, such as print and television can influence the way childhood is constructed
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What does Postman over emphasise?
A single cause of TV at the expense of other possible factors
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What does Brookes argue against Postman?
That there is evidence suggesting that adults are taking more control over children's lives- cotton wool society. Parents are more obsessed with safety&ever more concerned with defining boundaries for them.
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What does the 'Primary Review' say that children are increasingly exposed to?
The same issues, themes and experiences as adults
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What does the 'Primary Review' say about primary school aged children?
That they expressed a concern about adult-related themes such as climate change, terrorism and pollution
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What does the 'Primary Review' say about parents no longer being able to control?
The range of information, images and values that their children are exposed to
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What does the 'Primary Review' say that parents had little control over?
Mobile phones and the internet, through which children access harmful material and were concerned about a loss of childhood
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What does Cunningham say about pocket money?
That parental authority has been determined by children having money from either parents or part-time work
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What did the 2014 Annual Halifax Pocket Money Survey find?
The average child between 8 and 15 years old received pocket money average £6.35 a week, some get much more than that. In most cases children decide how to spend this money, reducing their dependency on parents
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What does the rapid pace of technological and social change mean for children?
That they are more up to date than their parents
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What did the BBC School Report Online Survey in 2011 find?
That nearly 90% of 11-16 year olds had helped an adult in the family go online, over half had helped with finding websites and emailing
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What does the internet give young people access to?
A range of knowledge and imagery of which their parents in many cases have little awareness
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What does this create the possibility that young people will develop?
A culture that parents find goes beyond their comprehension of experience, which may create a barrier between parents and children
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What does Margot suggest another indicator of a loss of childhood is?
that over the past 50 years, the average age of sexual intercourse fell from 20 for men and 21 for women in the 1950s and then to 16 for both by the 1990s
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What is the concern over the sexualisation of childhood?
With advertising and retailers encouraging children to dress and act in a sexually precocious way
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What does Margot point to?
The proliferation of sex tips for teenagers in youth magazines&health spas, for young girls as evidence that children are exposed to&expected to navigate adult concerns at younger ages
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