Childhood Flashcards
Punch studied rural _______,
They found what?
Rural Bolivia.
Once children were around 5 years old, they were expected to begin working, providing or contributing in the community.
Childhood was a less sheltered stage of life.
Who did the historical analysis of childhood developing.
Aries
The term the modern…..
Is who’s term? (As a bonus)
Modern cult of childhood.
Aries’ term.
Roughly when was public schooling introduced?
1880
When was the ‘Prevention of vcild cruelty act’ ?
1889
What’s Jenk’s postmodernist perspective on children in the family.
The Golden age of childhood was in the 20th century but it has remained and been fetishised. The Family in the 21st century has become increasingly child centric.
Today children at the centre of more easily destabilised relationships, symbolise a stability that is lacking.
It is also an investment to live vicariously.
In 2020, how many children were deemed eligible to child protection plans.
50,000 children!
90% of the world’s low birth weights are in ….
Low income countries.
Bonke reported in 1999 that Girls do…
5x as much domestic work than boys.
The concept of ‘age patriarchy’ is by Gi______,
It refers to…
By Giddens,
It refers to the theory that rhe subjugation of children is similar to patriarchy, in how it infantilises them.
Children are treated differently for found the same thing as adults, dressed and expected to dress differently, we speak to children differently make them dependent on what we give them (like an allowance system).
Children like women are the more likely candidate for domestic abuse.
What is ‘Adultification’?
The increased expectation of children to act like adults or their perception of them as closer to adults in development and mentality.
How might children be adultified?
- Clothing
- Social media exposure
- Duties to their family
Jenk’s theory of the Postmodern childhood is what…?
Childhood, like it historically always has, is changing.
It is only the previous understanding of childhood as a stage in life that has faded, not childhood itself.
Childhood today is still suffering from the whiplash of the attrition of the meta narrative childhood it was before.
Therefore parents often tie their value and identity to the child in their family because it represents something of a constancy.
They’re more overprotective.
According to the office of National statistics in 2021…
Approximately 8.9% of U.K young people have some sort of responsibility of care over another family member.
According to the NSPCC, in….
NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TOWARDS CHILDREN
2023, requests for their field services were up by 18% than the previous year.
The Office for National statistics also found that there had been a…
106% increase in child cruelty and neglect offences in England in the past 5 years
What point does Smart make about Childhood?
And what perspective is this from?
That children are often forgotten to be autonomous and thinking individuals in their circumstances, they are not passive observers.
Things like
- Disability
- Cultural tensions
- Divorce
Are deeply impactful, and create very individual reactions based on complex personal circumstances that studying society cannot reveal.
This is a personal life perspective
What is Age patriarchy?
A theory by Gittins.
Control of children by adults reflects patriarchal infantilisation.
Infant mortality in 1900
vs
today
154/1000
4/1000
UNCEF
United Nations Children’s Fund ranked the U.K
16 out of 29 of the countries it studied in relation to child protection infrastructure.
The protection of cruelty towards children act was passed in
1889
Bonke found what?
That girls did 5x as much housework as their brother did on average.
