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Period: 3100 BCE to 300
Infanticidal Mode
Killing legitimal and illegitimal child were a regular practice.
Children as a general practice were given insufficient food.
Almost all nations swaddled.
There were differents punishment objects
The children were sexually abused -
1500 BCE
Swaddling in antiquity
Swaddling was a practice to restrict movement in the child. In ancient Egypt, although the painting showed them naked, by Hippocrates we could know they did. Roman unswaddled at from 40 to 60 days and Greeks at two years. -
1000 BCE
Babilonian sales
Child sale was legal in Babylonian times, and may have been quite common among many nations in antiquity. -
400 BCE
Spartan feeding
the “starvation diet” of Spartan youth is well known, but from the number of references to scanty food, nursing babies only two or three times a day, fasts for children, and deprivation of food as discipline, one suspects that, like parents of contemporary child abusers, parents in the past found it hard to see to it that their children were adequately fed -
400 BCE
Castration in antiquity
Signs of castration surrounded the child in antiquity. For example, in Greek there were images from Priapus with a sickle, symbol of castration. -
300 BCE
Ways of killing in antiquity
Children were thrown into rivers, flung into dung-heaps and cess trenches, “potted” in jars to starve to death, and exposed on every hill and roadside, “a prey for birds, food for wild beasts to rend -
45 BCE
Sexual abuse in antiquity
The child in antiquity lived from a series of sexual abuse. The frequency varied from the place it come. In Greek, it was common to see pedagogues and teachers abused them -
Period: 400 to 1200
Abandoning Mode
The parents started to view the children as a person with soul, but as mini adults.
The practice of beating the children continued. -
1000
Beating child in Middle Age
The mentality began to change, but the beating remained. Now the adults can beat the children in a form of education but if they reach to kill him, the law applied on them -
1050
St. Anselm thought about beating child
St. Anselm, as in so many things, was far in advance of his time by telling an abbot to beat children gently, for “Are they not human? Are they not flesh and blood like you?” -
1230
Tying up children
Previously, the children were view as an easy recipient for the devil, reason why they restrain their movement to avoid any possession. -
Period: 1300 to
Ambivalent Mode
The children could enter in parent's emotional life. The thougths changed and it began to appear child instruction manual and it began an expansion of cult Mary and the infant Jesus.
Temper childhood beatings began in earnest, although even then it was generally accompanied by approval for beatings judiciously applied. -
Medicine improvement
The urine and feces of infants were often examined in order to determine the inner state of the child. -
Education Method
The children kept being punished by beatings or restraing the movement, by their parents or their mentors. -
New sexual twist
The boys or girl cannot touch theirself. There were tools to help to avoid that. -
Period: to
Intrusive Mode
The parents wanted to take more control over the children mainly in their mind. The child is loved and hated, rewarded and punished. They were so much less threatening that empathy was possible. The pediatrics was born. -
Period: to
Socializing Mode
The father are more involved in child-care. Instead of controlling their mind, they started to guiding them, teaching them and socializing with them. Right into the nineteenth century leading strings were tied to the child’s clothes to control it and swing it about. -
Terrifying Children
Terrifying the children mind as a new control method -
Period: to
Helping Mode
Involve that the children know what they need at each stage of life, and their parents are only to helping to accomplish what they need. This change of role in the parents means an change of the inversion of energy, time and discussion, mainly in the first six years. The result is to obtain a child who is gentle, sincere, never depressed, never group oriented, strong willed and unintimidated by authority. -
Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The first international human rights treaty to bring together the universal set of standards concerning children in a unique instrument, and the first to present child rights as a legally binding imperative.
