Cultural Differences in Childhood

• In terms of taking on responsibilities how do children in non-industrial societies differ from those in industrial?

  • Children join rebel groups
  • Expected to do hard labour
  • Getting married and looking after the family
  • Having children at a young age so become mothers early in life
  • Have to work and provide for the family
• In terms of showing less obedience to adults how do children in non-industrial societies differ from those in industrial?

  • Children didn't have adults to guide them so they made the choice to join rebel gangs
  • Children choosing to marry in order to avoid arranged marriages
  • Children choose to work to avoid begging and going hungry
• In terms of sexual behaviour how do children in non-industrial societies differ from those in industrial?

  • Only see marriage as a way to offload children
  • Children teasing each other pressures them into marriage
  • Having children at a young age is normalised