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Infanticide was very common, they saw children as something very easy to replace, and they did not consider infanticide wrong
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In this time, Children were often temporarily sent off as servants to relatives in need of help.
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In England during the Elizabethan era, the transmission of social norms was a family matter and children were taught the basic etiquette of proper manners and respecting others.
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shift in philosophical and social attitudes toward children and the notion of childhood began in Europe. Adults increasingly saw children as separate beings, innocent and in need of protection and training by the adults around them.
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Rousseau described childhood as a brief period of sanctuary before people encounter the perils and hardships of adulthood
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With the onset of industrialisation in England, Many thoughts arose about children, especially Lord Shaftesbury, who introduced bills in Parliament to mitigate the exploitation of children in the workplace, but not completely, only until the age of 9 they could not work.
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The modern attitude to children emerged by the late 19th century; the Victorian middle and upper classes emphasized the role of the family and the sanctity of the child Since this century, the children rights children's rights began to emerge and the important of them
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The UNCRC instituion added two protocols, One asks governments to ensure children under the age of 18 are not forcibly recruited into their armed forces. The second calls on states to prohibit child prostitution, child pornography and the sale of children into slavery.