A lot of childrearing that was normal from 50 years ago is currently considered child abuse. Did people 50 years ago consider childrearing from 100 years ago to be child abuse?
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The presenter's point: what are we doing today that will trigger our grandchildren? Carbon emissions? Tolerating insane income inequality?
So, for childrearing: denying infants screen time? Forcing them to join groups doing things they don't want to do?
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I agree they shift over time, but it's possible that a framework for considering something 'abuse' is new. And it's very probable that almost everything we're doing will be considered barbaric in the future.
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Yes, Dr. Benjamin Spock revolutionized child care/parenting attitudes with his 1946 book, which sold over 50m copies; parents in the 50s and 60s considered earlier parenting methods rather barbarous.
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they did discuss it at least
think this is from early 20C
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I don't think the change is a linear trend. It's more like mores shifting in various dimensions with time and location.
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Probably. 50 years ago puts child rearing in the 70s/late 60s. 100 years ago is at the end of the First World War. For consideration, my grandfather finished school when he was 12 and went to work in a shoe factory in the north of England. That seems like abuse by the 70s.
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Child labor went from normal to illegal in most of the western world during that time, so I would think so.
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