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Period: 500 BCE to 300
Infanticidal mode
The image of Medea hovers over childhood in antiquity, for myth here only reflects reality. Some facts are more important than others, and when parents routinely resolved their anxieties about taking care of children by killing them, it affected the surviving children profoundly -
370 BCE
Plato
Childhood is the key to understanding, and education is the way. -
70
Quintillian
When children are beaten, pain or fear frequently have results of which it is not pleasant to speak and which are likely to be a source of shame -
100
Plutarch
sexual abuse of boys was not limited to those over 11 or 12 years of age, as most scholars assume. Sexual abuse by pedagogues and teachers of smaller children may have been common throughout antiquity -
Period: 500 to Feb 26, 1400
Christianity and middle ages
Childs suffered a lot through this ages, not only because of the sexual abuse, they also where used as merchandise. -
Feb 25, 1088
Raise of the first universities
it all began with the University of Bologna in 1088, it later came to be oxford and paris universities -
Feb 25, 1100
12th century england
In the twelfth century the English had been selling their children to the Irish for slaves, and the Norman invasion was a punishment from God for this slave traffic. also, it was “quite customary to give young children as hostages to guarantee an
agreement, and equally so to make them suffer for their parents’ bad faith. -
Period: Feb 26, 1300 to
Ambivalent mode
Because the child, when it was allowed to enter into the parents’ emotional life, was still a container for dangerous projections, it was their task to mold it into shape. From Dominici to Locke there was no image more popular than that of the physical molding of children, who were seen as soft wax, plaster, or clay to be beaten into shape -
Period: to
Intrusive mode
A tremendous reduction in projection and the virtual disappearance of reversal was the accomplishment of the great transition for parent-child relations which appeared in the eighteenth century. The child was no longer so full of dangerous projections, and rather than just examine its insides with an enema, the parents approached even closer and attempted to conquer its mind -
Immanuel Kant
he studied the problem of the formation of the child and the young person besides talking about the care of the parents to their children.
Kant through all his philosophy illustrated the first thoughts of Childs trouble in their early life. -
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In his works he states that the child is good for nature; the education is different for every child, education should be compulsory and should include women.
He described childhood as a brief period of sanctuary before people encounter the perils and hardships of adulthood -
Period: to
Socializing mode
As projections continued to diminish, the raising of a child became less a process of conquering its will than of training it, guiding it into proper paths, teaching it to conform, socializing it. The socializing mode is still thought of by most people as the only model within which discussion of child care can proceed, and it has been the source of all twentieth-century psychological models -
Rights of Children
In 1924, the League of Nations (LON) adopted the Geneva Declaration, a historic document that recognised and affirmed for the first time the existence of rights specific to children and the responsibility of adults towards children. -
UNICEF
The United Nations International Children's Fund is a United Nations programme headquartered in New York City that provides humanitarian and developmental assistance to children and mothers in developing countries -
International day of Children Rights
