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1 BCE
Children were thrown into rivers, flung into dung-heaps and cess trenches, "potted" in jars to starve to death
Any child that was not perfect in shape or size, or cried too little or too much, or was not worthy rearing, was generally killed. Beyond this, the first-born was usually allowed to live, especially if it was a boy. The result was a large imbalance of males over female. -
Period: 1 BCE to 400
Infanticidal Mode
Because of projective reactions children were perceived as represenasiest way to do this was to remove the source of evil permanently by killing the child.
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374
The law began to consider killing an infant murder
even opposition to the infanticide of the Church Fathers often seemed to based more on their concern for the souls of the parents than for the life of the child. The statement of St Justin Martyr said that the reason why a Christian should not expose his children is to avoid meeting them later in brothel. -
Period: 400 to 1300
Abandoning Mode
Once parents accepted that children has souls it was no longer possible to escape the evil projections, they represented by killing them. The solution was to distance themselves from these dangerous projections by abandoning their children whether to the wet nurse, to the monastery or nunnery or foster families, to the homes of other nobles as servants or hostages, or by severe emotional abandonment at home -
442
The finding of abandoned children was supposed to be announced in church
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787
Dateo of Milan founded the first asylum solely for abandoned infants
Other countries followed much the same pattern of evolution. Despite, the continued existence of widespread infanticide in the Middle Ages is usually denied by medievalists since is not evident in church or other sources -
Period: Jan 1, 1201 to Dec 1, 1300
Law brought child-beating into the public domain
The law was supported by the following statement "If you beat a child until he bleeds, then he will remember, but if you beat him to death, the law applies". Bartholomew Batty said parents should beat and slap their children on the face and head, and tie them up like malt sacks with clubs, sticks or five shovels, "For then they could die from the blows. The correct way was to beat him on the sides with a rod, he won´t die for it" -
Period: Jan 1, 1301 to
Ambivalent Mode
The child was still seen as a container of dangerous projections but, as long as he was restrained, it was allowed to enter into the parent´s emotional life, it was their task to mold it into shape. The role of the parents was to accept responsibility for their children and to physically mould each child into shape. -
1405
Children after the age of three years shouldn´t be allowed to see nude adults
Taking into account that the sexual abuse of children was far more common in the past than today, Giovanni Dominici, tried to set some limits to the convenient "innocence" of childhood. For in a child "granted that there will not take place any thought or natural movement before the age of five, without precaution, growing up in such acts he becomes accustomed to the act of which later he is not ashamed". -
Period: to
Intrusive Mode
The child was no longer seen as full of dangerous projections and true empathy was possible. Parents became more involved in the education of their children and children raised by intrusive parents were breastfed by the mother, not wrapped in diapers. They were taught to go to the bathroom, but they neither played nor beat. They were forced to obey promptly with threats, guilt and other punishments, such as being locked in dark closets for hours. Even pediatrics was born. -
Period: to
Socializing Mode
As the projections continued to diminish, the upbringing of a child became less a process of conquering his will than of training him, guiding him towards the proper paths, teaching him to conform, socializing him. With the change from projective to empathic reactions, the child’s upbringing became less a matter of conquering the child and more a process of training the child, guiding him in the right direction and socializing him. -
Geneva Declaration on the Rights of the Child
All people owe children the right to: means for their development; special help in times of need; priority for relief; economic freedom and protection from exploitation; and upbringing that instils social consciousness and duty. -
Methods almost completely died out
Methods to prevent erections and Metal Anti-Masturbation Devices had almost completely died out, after two centuries of brutal and totally un-necessary assault on children’s genitals. -
UNICEF
The United Nations General Assembly establishes the International Children´s Emergency Fund, UNICEF, with an emphasis on children thoughout the world -
Helping Mode Begins
The child knows better than the parents what he needs at each stage of his life and fully involves both parents in the child's life as they work to empathize and meet his particular and expanding needs. Children are not beaten or scolded, and they are apologized if yelled at under stress. Father and son, supposedly empathize and work together to satisfy these needs. The result is reportedly a kind, sincere, and independent boy with a strong will and little fear of authority. -
Rights of the Child to education
The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, which recognizes, among other rights, children’s rights to education, play, a supportive environment and health care. -
Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict
Concerned about the vulnerability of women and children in emergency and conflict situations, the General Assembly calls on Member States to observe the Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict. The Declaration prohibits attacks against or imprisonment of civilian women and children, and upholds the sanctity of the rights of women and children during armed conflict. -
Convention on the Rights of the Child
The Convention on the Rights of the Child is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly and widely acclaimed as a landmark achievement for human rights, recognizing the roles of children as social, economic, political, civil and cultural actors. The Convention guarantees and sets minimum standards for protecting the rights of children in all capacities. UNICEF, which helped draft the Convention, is named in the document as a source of expertise. -
Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention
The International Labour Organization (ILO) adopts the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, calling for the immediate prohibition and elimination of any form of work that is likely to harm the health, safety or morals of children. UNICEF has been working with the ILO since 1996 to promote the ratification of international labour standards and policies concerning child labour. -
Optional Protocol
A new Optional Protocol to the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child is adopted. Under this Optional Protocol on a communications procedure, the Committee on the Rights of the Child can field complaints of child rights violations and undertake investigations.
