TY - BOOK ID - 17454426 TI - Forgotten children : parent-child relations from 1500 to 1900 PY - 1983 SN - 0521250099 0521271339 9780521271332 9780521250092 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Child Rearing KW - -Parent and child KW - -Childhood KW - Opinion, Public KW - -history. KW - #GROL:MEDO-392-053.2'15/18' KW - History of Europe KW - anno 1700-1799 KW - Child development KW - Children KW - Parent and child KW - Public opinion KW - Perception, Public KW - Popular opinion KW - Public perception KW - Public perceptions KW - Judgment KW - Social psychology KW - Attitude (Psychology) KW - Focus groups KW - Reputation KW - Child and parent KW - Children and parents KW - Parent-child relations KW - Parents and children KW - Children and adults KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Parental alienation syndrome KW - Sandwich generation KW - Childhood KW - Kids (Children) KW - Pedology (Child study) KW - Youngsters KW - Age groups KW - Families KW - Life cycle, Human KW - Child study KW - Development, Child KW - Developmental biology KW - Developmental psychobiology KW - Child rearing KW - History KW - Public opinion&delete& KW - history KW - Development KW - History. KW - ROLDUC-MEDO KW - Children - History KW - Children - Public opinion - History KW - Parent and child - History KW - Child development - History KW - Public opinion - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:17454426 AB - 'The history of childhood is an area so full of errors, distortion and misinterpretation that I thought it vital, if progress were to be made, to supply a clear review of the information on childhood contained in such sources as diaries and autobiographies.' Dr Pollock's statement in her Preface will startle readers who have not questioned the validity of recent theories on the evolution of childhood and the treatment of children, theories which see a movement from a situation where the concept of childhood was almost absent, and children were cruelly treated, to our present western recognition that children are different and should be treated with love and affection. Linda examines this thesis particularly through the close and careful analysis of some hundreds of English and American primary sources. Through these sources, she has been able to reconstruct, probably for the first time, a genuine picture of childhood in the past, and it is a much more humane and optimistic picture than the current stereotype. Her book contains a mass of novel and original material on child-rearing practices and the relations of parents and children, and sets this in the wider framework of developmental psychology, socio-biology and social anthropology. Forgotten Children admirably fulfils the aim of its author. In the face of this scholarly and elegant account of the continuity of parental care, few will now be able to argue for dramatic transformations in the twentieth century. ER -