Being a girl or a boy.

By adrianagarciap13
  • Period: 1200 BCE to 146 BCE

    Greek era

    childhood is considered as the citizenship of the future, so they tried to incorporate them in education.
  • Period: 1 CE to 100

    Christianity

    It reinforces the role of fathers and mothers, as it recognizes their obligation, by God's command, to feed and teach their sons and daughters. infanticide begins to be described as murder.
  • Period: 476 to 1492

    Middle Age

    Children were considered private property of fathers and mothers.
    There was a discriminatory treatment towards girls and women.
    The infant era ended at age seven. From that age they began to work the lands, were at the service of the feudal lord, etc.
  • Period: 1300 to

    Renaissance

    There was a greater appreciation of boys and girls, and therefore of their education.
  • Period: 1501 to

    Liberalism

    It is the time of recognition of rights through various revolutions that proclaimed the need for acceptance and institutional defense of Human Rights.
  • Period: to

    XIX Century

    The children of the poorest classes had harsh living and working conditions. For this reason, the so-called "saviors of children" movements arise in different countries whose objective was the re-education of marginal children that caused problems to the society of the time.
  • Period: to

    XX Century

    The concept of children changed; boys (and especially girls) are considered citizens with specific needs, so they must also have a series of specific rights.
  • Period: to

    Early XXI century

    Boys and girls begin to be seen as a social group, with a series of internationally recognized rights
  • Period: to

    How these changes are closely linked to the social moment we live now days

    If we compare today's childhood with that of previous centuries, we can notice a great change, as it is to recognize children as different human beings; we could say that they are good changes because the well-being of children improved. If we refer to the present year we also have to recognize that technology has influenced the development of infants, in many cases it has a good impact but in others not so much.