SOCIOL 2U06 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Infant Mortality, John Bowlby, Behaviorism
30 Mar 2016
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Early child-rearing advice in canada centered around medical concerns over high th century rates of infant mortality in the early part of the 20th century. Parenting advice at this time focused heavily on ways to keep children free of germs. The early influences of behaviourism can be seen in the inherent assumption that children could and should be properly trained and managed. Child-rearing advice in the latter half of the 20th century. Child-rearing advice at this time began to focus less on children"s physical health, as refrigeration, medical advances, vaccinations for infectious diseases, and clean water supplies meant infant mortality rates were no longer the concern they once were. Dr. spock advice book baby and child care 1946: this approach fit within, and helped to define a more child-centered and. Permissive" approach to parenting: the child in this conception was both more innocent and more psychologically vulnerable. Bowlby on maternal deprivation and attachment.
