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500 BCE
Classic period-Greece
The child in antiquity lived his earliest years in an atmosphere of sexual abuse. Growing up in Greece and Rome often included being used sexually by older men. -
300 BCE
Infanticide
Was the killing of children because of their legitimacy status, their physical appearance or simply because the willing of their mother. This children were thrown into rivers, flung into dung-heaps and cess trenches, “potted” in jars to starve to death. -
300 BCE
Child abandoning
The only way the parents could escape the dangers of their own projections was by abandonment, whether to the wet nurse, to the monastery or nunnery, to foster families, to the homes of other nobles as servants or hostages, or by severe emotional abandonment at home. -
401
Middle Age V Century
Children in the Middle Ages, if they survived past early childhood, sometimes led lives full of turmoil and anguish. Because the time period was full of poor diet and sickness, the lifespan was cut short for many before they even reached adolescence. Also, many children did not experience hours of playtime because they were put to work in order to help their families. -
1300
Children on renaissance
Renaissance were divided by fate into two categories; nobility and common and their lives were very different depending on which group they belonged to. Right from birth, the children of the aristocracy and the aspiring wealthy classes were tended by servants, nursemaids and tutors. -
an-Jacques Roussueau
Philosopher Jean-Jacques Roussueau states that a child's mode of thinking is different than an adult and they learn though hands-on experience. -
Johann Pestalozzi
Established what is considered to the first school to teach preschool age children. -
Child Labor
About 2 million school-age children were working 50- to 70-hour weeks. Most came from poor families. When parents could not support their children, they sometimes turned them over to a mill or factory owner. -
Children’s Charter
It was the first Act of Parliament for the prevention of cruelty to children. It enabled the state to intervene, for the first time, in relations between parents and children. Police could arrest anyone found ill-treating a child, and enter a home if a child was thought to be in danger. The act included guidelines on the employment of children and outlawed begging -
Creation of UNICEF
UNICEF was established the United Nations to meet the emergency needs of children in post-war Europe and China. -
Convention on the Rights of the Child
The Convention changed the way children are viewed and treated – as human beings with a distinct set of rights instead of as passive objects of care and charity. -
Children’s rights 2000+
New international protections pledged in 2000 held out hope for the many children who were exploited as laborers or abused as soldiers around the world. A new optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child prohibiting the use of children in armed conflict was adopted in May, and quickly garnered signatures from seventy countries.
