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374
Infanticide
It was then for this year that infanticide was considered a crime by the church -
442
Abandoned Children
Finding of abandoned children was supposed to be announced in church -
787
Dateo of Milan
Dateo of Milan founded the first asylum for abandoned children -
1405
Giovanni Dominici's Book
He wrote a book setting the limits of the innocence of children. With the aim of reducing sexual abuse on them. -
The use of Child as a "toilet"
By this time, children were used as a "toilet". To avoid this, Richard Allestre wrote: "the new-born babe is full of the stains and pollution of sin, which it inherits from our first parents." -
Toilet Training
It was only until the eighteenth century that infants started to learn how to use toilet. -
Nicholas' Story
Nicholas was 4 year old kid and his grandfather told him to put his hands on the fire if he was willing to protect his mom. A clear example of this projective reaction towards childhood -
United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF)
In 1953, UNICEF became a permanent part of the UN and began a successful global campaign against yaws, a disfiguring disease affecting millions of children, and one that can be cured with penicillin. -
Convention on the Rights of the Child
The United Nations define child as "child means every human being below the age of eighteen years unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier." in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)
