Children throughout the ages

The Middle Ages

In Middle Ages children were seen as miniature adults. They were to act according and do every thing an adult would do. They would partake in a social life beside their parents,even when there was sexual acts, swearing and some times death. Babies and young wouldn't live long or often didn't live at all so many parents would call the kid "it". They would show very little love, seen the kid as another mouth to feed until they were sure "it" would survive. The kids never got special treatment and were beaten and punished like an adult would be if they broke any rules.

The 18th and 19th century

In the 18th and 19th century children were seen as weak, easy to draw into temptation and often were beaten. Adults seen beating their kids as a way to teaching them right from wrong. Many adults thought that they shouldn't be the only ones who work, so they made their own kids work long and hard. They seen children good for going in to small little places where no adults could go.Some poor families made their kids bag for money and scavenge for food. Some abandoned children were recruited by bad person to helped in robberies and prostitution.

The 20th century

Parents no longer needed children to work any more because the man of the house hold was suppose to bring home the money. People finally realized that kids are innocent, emotional, and needed to be protected. The one bad thing about having kids at the time was that it's to costly and many people saw them as useless.