Childhood in History

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  • 1200 BCE

    Sexual abuse

  • 374 BCE

    Infanticide

  • 100 BCE

    Children as servants

  • 300

    Infanticidal mode

  • Period: 300 to 1200

    Abandoning mode

  • Period: 1300 to

    Ambivalent Mode

  • Period: to

    The concept of childhood

  • Intrusive Mode

  • Period: to

    Socializing Mode

  • custody of child

    Only from the 1870s did the law acknowledge that the first consideration in deciding who should have custody of a minor was the interests of the child (i.e. whether or not he or she was well cared for), rather than the adult’s possessional interest.

  • Cruelty to children became a criminal offense

    cruelty to children by parents and others became for the first time a specific criminal offence

  • Freud's remarks

  • Helping Mode

  • Children rights