Nature of childhood

• Wagg (Childhood)

  childhood socially constructed not biological
• Pilcher (Childhood)

  Children separate from adults and childhood as a distinct stage
• Aries (Childhood)

  Childhood more special time now, more child centered and reached a period called cult of childhood
• Brannen (Childhood)

  Ethnicity - Asian parents stricter with daughters
• Howard (Childhood)

  Class - children of unskilled suffer from hyperactivity and low weight children linked to physical/intellectual development
• Hillman (Childhood)

  Gender - Girls likely to do domestic chores whilst males allowed out at night
• Gittens (Childhood)

  Age patriarchy
• Opie (Childhood)

  Childhood staying separate
• Postman (Childhood)

  Childhood disappearing at dazzling speed
• Palmer (Childhood)

  Toxic childhood
• Hockley and James (Childhood)

  Resistance of status
• Phillips (Childhood)

  Childhood shortening
• Furedi (Childhood)

  Paranoid parenting