HUMA 1970 Lecture 10: Lecture 10.docx
20 Apr 2015
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Histories of childhood iii: cultural diversity (modern childhoods: certain ideas of childhood has become fixed, childhood is a social construct, it"s dynamic, modern childhood in japan, childhood and communist revolution, childhood in affluent societies, 20th and 21th centuries, children face war and violence, globalization and childhoods, childhoods from towards future. 3 fundamentals of modern childhood : conversion of childhood from work to schooling, children changed from being economic assets to being economic liabilities, decision to limit family size, dramatic reduction in infant mortality, traditional rates from 30 50% November 11 2014: openness to opinion of sons and daughters about marriage, fewer rural families waited to name a child until he or she passed age 2, swaddling of children abandoned, criticisms of wet nursing, parents advised against using anger or fear to discipline their children, new interest in purchases for children, particularly.
