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374
IV Century A.D.
The law began to consider killing an infant murder only in 374 A.D. Yet even the opposition to infanticide by the Church Fathers often seemed to be based more on their concern for the parent’s soul than with the child’s life. -
476
Children principles in the family
Boys and girls since roman times, had to wait their parents at the table. In Middle ages, children were servants with the exception of royalty. -
Aug 28, 787
Foundation of the first asylum for abandoned infants
After the Council of Vaison (442 A.D.), the finding of abandoned children was supposed to be announced in church, and by 787 A.D., Dateo of Milan founded the first asylum solely for abandoned infants -
Aug 28, 1100
Childhood education
Major cathedrals operated education programs for small numbers of teenage boys to become priests. First universities started to appear in Europe to train physicians, lawyers and government officials. Students entered as young as 13 years old. -
Growth
Mid-1600th, childhood wasn’t seen as the important part of a person life it is, parental love wasn’t that relevant. -
Sexual harassment
Louis XIII was a well known abused child, as older people went to kiss and touch his private parts. This is just one case, the real amount would outnumber any scale. Valerius Maximus depicts the story of the "perfect" child: the one that can breasfeed his parents. -
"Ilustration"
John Amos Comenius published the Orbis Pictus, the first illustrated book for children.
Contained topics like: inanimate nature, botanic, zoology, religion and human activities. -
Child abuse control
Parents began punishing their children for masturbation, and doctors began to spread the myth that it would cause insanity, epilepsy, blindness, and death -
Pre-school
In 1779 Johann Friedrich Oberlin and Louise Scheppler founded in Strassbourg a place for caring and educating pre-school children whose parents were absent during the day. -
Prevention of cruelty
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. -
Banning of child corporal punishment
Smacking children was banned in Sweden already in 1979, a radical world first. Since then, many more countries have implemented laws against corporal punishment of children.
