Childhood in history

  • 1 CE

    Antiquity Century IV Infanticide

    The father-son relationship was infanticide. Importance of the projective reaction. Children were born with original sin because of our first parents. Mainly girls were killed. They threw themselves into rivers to starve to death.
  • 2

    4th to 13th centuries- Abandonment

    4th to 13th centuries- Abandonment
    Children were given to monasteries, nurses, convents or foster families. Even some served as hostages or slaves. Parents felt this would help them mature
  • 3

    Ambibalent XIV to XVII Centuries

    the beginning of the period is approximately the fourteenth century which shows an increase in the number of instruction manuals for children, the expansion of the cults of Mary and the child Jesus and the proliferation in the art of the "image of the close mother"
  • 4

    Intrusive XVIII century

    the child was no longer so full of dangerous projections, the parents got even closer and tried to conquer his mind, to control his entrails, his anger, his needs, his masturbation, his own will. The child was much less threatening than true empathy was possible. sexual abuse of children
  • 5

    19th and mid-20th centuries socialization

    19th and mid-20th centuries socialization
    As the projections continued to diminish, raising a child became less a process of conquering his will than of educating him, guiding him on proper paths, teaching him to adapt, and socializing him. In the nineteenth century the father begins to take an interest in the child, trains him, and relieves the mother of the tasks of child care
  • 6

    Mid SXX to the present

    Mid SXX to the present
    A supportive relationship is established, parents are empathetic with children, play with them, listen to them, seek to educate them in a more assertive way.