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The Shocking Truth About How Children Were Viewed 300 Years Ago

27 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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Three centuries ago, children were viewed as small adults, not a separate category. The concept of childhood emerged when work shifted from home-based farming to structured external employment, creating new social rules that defined and protected kids as distinct.

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300 years ago, by the way, there was no concept of children. You know that? No, I did not. They were little people, and that's what children are. They're individuals, but they're smaller than us. They haven't got the benefit of learning the languages and all the other things we've got, but they're little people. Children came into being in a lot of ways because of work. 300 years ago, 350 years ago, there was no concept of work. People didn't go out to work. People worked around where they lived, so they grew vegetables and they cut grass and they milked cows and things like that. And that's when children and other things started to creep in with the rules around things.