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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
Babies started being swaddled, this was because it was thought they committed sins when they cried too much. -
1500
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
The Association for Applied Psychoanalysis set up a team of historians that uncover the major stages of child-rearing in the West.