PSY 380 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Child Abuse Prevention And Treatment Act, Psychological Abuse, Risk Assessment
13 Jan 2017
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The history of childhood is a nightmare from which we have only recently begun to awaken. The further back in history one goes the lower the level of child care, and the more likely children are to be killed, abandoned, beaten, terrorized, and sexually abused (demause 1974, page 1). Commonly agreed upon traits: physically immature, psychologically immature, dependent on parents, require socialization/rearing, children are not responsible for their lives/actions. Less agreed upon traits: require separation from adults, need foods, clothing, and toys, absolutely require loving, supportive, educational environment. Physical maturity, psychological maturity, self-sufficiency, playing with toys, going to school, living with parents, working at a job. Influenced by the era, social class, culture, location, and family. Empey et al. (1999: indifference to childhood, pre 15th century, discovery of childhood, 15th and 18th century, preoccupation with childhood, 19th and 20th centuries.
