Children in History

  • Period: 900 BCE to 100

    Bible

    Child sacrifice and beating. It is taught the strict obedience children must have. There isn't an empathy for them, but they must love their parents.
  • 350

    St Augustine

    St Augustine
    If a baby cried it was commiting a sin and were considered as changeling. It was believed that they were under the power of the devil.
  • 1100

    12th century

    It was difficult to stand the crying of a baby. Mother capable of deal with it could be considered as saints.
  • 1230

    1230

    1230
    Children were tied up or swaddled because they were turning into evil
  • 1300

    Middle Ages

    Middle Ages
    Uses of witches and devils to scare children.
  • 1500

    Reformation

    Baptism used to actual exorcism of the Devil. The child who cried at his christening was letting out the Devil long survived.
  • 17th century

    17th century
    Severe whipping of young children with various instruments at school and at home.
  • The child as a "Toilet" of adult's projections

    The new-born babe is full of the stains and pollution of sin from their first parents.
  • 18th Century

    Infanticide as kidness and discipline. Hurting children is not seen as a cruelty yet.
  • 18th Century

    18th Century
    Children were sent at 7 years old as servant to other houses.
  • Illustration

    Illustration
    It is emphasized the importance of children's education and development. First influences of formal education for children in Europe and North America.
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

    Children are sent to work in factories and mines
  • George Payne’s The Child in Human Progress

    George Payne’s The Child in Human Progress
    The first to examine the wide extent of infanticide and brutality toward children in the antiquity.
  • Children's work abolishment

    In this year, the effort to abolish children's work at an early age began, with the creation of the International Labour Organization (OLI).
  • Children's education

    Children's education
    The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child establishes the right of children to be educated and their protection against economic exposure.
  • Technology and children

    Technology and children
    European Union took measures to prevent and defend children of sexual harassment and pornography on line.