"A History of Children" investigates the treatment of children
throughout the millennia, examining and comparing, in the timeline
from prehistory to the present, cultural codes, and societal laws.
A recurrent theme in the book is the unchanging, immutable nature
of childhood despite epochal and societal differences in birth
rituals, education, puberty rituals, inheritance laws, child labor
legislation, cultural customs, and historical events that have
affected the lives of children over the last 5000 years. Despite
the cruelties of infanticide, abandonment, and slavery that
continue to have a presence in the modern world, the love and
regard for children have not changed drastically. The authors
reveal the impact of laws, religions, pedagogues, medicine,
advocates, and the rogues of history--plagues, tyrants, wars,
superstitions, poverty and famines--on the lives of children. They
paint a composite portrait of the child within the broad swatches
of early civilizations, the Classical and Patristic periods, the
medieval and Renaissance epochs, the Reformation, Revolutionary
periods, and the past century--all with the intent to inform the
reader of the past and to prepare for the future.
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