Childhood

• Pilcher


  Clear, distinct life stages

  Childhood is a golden stage of life
• Aries 


  Childhood in the middle ages didn't exist
• March of progress


  Children are more protected, have more rights and more valued that ever before
• Conflict view

  Age patriarchy - inequality of power between children and adults
• Benedict


  Children are treated in the same way as adults
• Postman 


  Childhood is disappearing - Blurred distinction
• Opie


  Challenges Postman

  • evidence of separate culture
• Hockey and James


  Acting up and acting down