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360 BCE
Plato
Before Plato Childhood was not been taked into account, since him it is has been known that childhood is a key to the underestanding -
Period: 354 to 430
San Agustín
The children are born of sin and they are the representation of it -
374
Law
From this year it was considered murder killing an enfant according to law -
787
Asylum
Dateo of Milan founded the first asylum solely for abandoned infants -
1230
Bartholomaeus Anglicus
TOILET CHILD“And for tenderness the limbs of the child may easily and soon bow and bend and take diverse shapes. And therefore children’s members and limbs are bound with lystes [bandages], and other covenable bonds, that they be not crooked nor evil shapen . . .” -
Period: 1500 to
Child as a property
In the XVI century the child was seen as a property or an economic resource, they started to work from early ages. -
Period: 1500 to
The child as a small adult
The child in this period is seen as a small adult, they were supposed to learn from the adults and behave like them, the mayor diferrence between the children and the adults was the size and the experience but even in the clothes they were similar -
The Child as a Mother
The child is a lover who fervently loves his mother -
Child as a chalkboard
Jhon Locke indicated thar the child in not good or bad in nature, he is just a chalkboard that learn from the events in his life -
Child as good
Rousseau in his book Emile express his conception of childhood, for him this was considered a crucial stage in life. He said that childre are inherent good. -
Period: to
Child Labor
In this century the laws against child labor were promulged because society started to protect children from explotation and cruelty -
Period: to
Child as a developing person
From this century children were considered a developing person -
Pediatrics
Pediatrics appears for the first time in the history -
Freud
Since Freud the conception of childhood has changed and the importance of parent-child relations for social change -
Sexual abuse
After two centuries of abusing children's genitals it stopped. This abuses consisted in punishing the childer for masturbation, this punishments included metal anti-masturbation devices, circumcision, clitoridectomy. -
The child as a social subject of law
The child is considered a social being with rights and duties, the government has to ensure the well-being of those.
