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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
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
Children were tied up or swaddled because they were turning into evil -
1300
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
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
Children were sent at 7 years old as servant to other houses. -
Illustration
It is emphasized the importance of children's education and development. First influences of formal education for children in Europe and North America. -
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Industrial Revolution
Children are sent to work in factories and mines -
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
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
European Union took measures to prevent and defend children of sexual harassment and pornography on line.