Foto infancia historia

Childhood in History

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 476

    Commonality of infanticide and children brutality

    Parents used to kill their children to solve their anxieties about taking care of them.
  • Period: 400 BCE to 300

    Childooh masturbation

    In Ancient Greece Belief that the masturbating of boys would “hasten manhood”
  • 374

    Law against infanticide

    In this year, they created the law that consider killing an infant a murder.
  • Period: 500 to 900

    The breasts of little infants

    Kissing or sucking on the breasts of little infants by adults was common
  • 1230

    Swaddling babies

    Swaddling babies
    Babies started being swaddled, this was because it was thought they committed sins when they cried too much.
  • 1500

    Creation of term: "childhood"

    Creation of term: "childhood"
    In the Early Modern Period, the term “childhood” was invented.
  • Suppositories, enemas, and oral purges

    In sixteenth- century, children were given suppositories, enemas, and oral purges because of the feces. Some attempts were made in the seventeenth century to limit the beating of children
  • Period: to

    beating of children ends

    Some attempts were made in the seventeenth century to limit the beating of children, but it was the eighteenth century which saw the biggest decrease.
  • Masturbation's prohibition

    In the beginning of the eighteenth century, as a climax of the effort to bring child abuse under control, that parents began severely punishing their children for masturbation.
  • Period: to

    Socializing parenting mode

    Raising a child becomes less about conquering his or her will and more about training, guiding and teaching. It is the first time that the father begins to take more interest in his child and even relieves the mother of childcare duties.
  • Creation of the Evolutionary theory of historical change in parent-child relations

    Creation of the Evolutionary theory of historical change in parent-child relations
    The Association for Applied Psychoanalysis set up a team of historians that uncover the major stages of child-rearing in the West.