CHST 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Unicef, Parens Patriae
6 Jul 2016
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Socially constructed: many ways it changes between time and place, race, class, gender. Ex. pink is for girls, blue is for boys: associated, childhood is always changing. There is no one way of being a child (even when having the same parents) Children"s rights: traditionally children where property of their parents, they could do whatever they wanted, in midivil times, children were seen as little adults, by the 18th century, children started to be different. Boys were seen as safer under the law than girls. Child savings: children are seen as emerging protection. Parens patriae: means parent of the nation. When you adopt this, the nation has the right to intervene: 18 hundres, abusing a child started to become notice. Kingston ken (jail: laws starting to emerge about children being thrown in jail. Children don"t have rights but we are starting to recognize that they are different. 1919 league of nations formed international organization.
