Childhood

Question 1

CC: China

Answer 1

1979
one child allowed per couple 
aborted girls and boys more valuable 
gender imbalance 
100g:120b
women began to be kidnapped and sex trafficked 
currently now 2

Question 2

CC: Romania

Answer 2

1980s
restricted contraception
marriage tax allowance
tougher divorce policies

Question 3

CC: Nazi

Answer 3

1930s
aryan race
hitler schools

Question 4

Phillipe Aries

Answer 4

looked at paintings and drawings from medieval times
no childhood
children dressed identical, did same jobs
as soon as able to would work
CHILDHOOD DID NOT EXIST

Question 5

Aries and Shorter

Answer 5

'March of Progress view'
children have image of innocence and vuneablity 
protected by laws
education 
golden age
children act 1989
media ideas about raising children

Question 6

Opie 1993

Answer 6

childhood is NOT disappearing
just transformed into the form of songs, games and rhymes
claims school is strong evidence of this
similarly western norms are spreading, e.g afghan

Question 7

Palmer 2006

Answer 7

Toxic childhood
argues that rapid technological and cultural changes are damaging childrens development

e.g junk food, computer games, intensive marketing, harsh tests in education, long hours worked by parent s

ruins and causes the disappearance f childhood

uk near top for obesity, drugs and alcohol.

Question 8

Postman 1994

Answer 8

argues that childhood IS disappearing and that is because children are becoming like adults

print culture is being replaced by television culture

Question 9

Child control

Answer 9

• bodies
• time
• space