Children, Childhood and English Society, 1880}}}1990 [Hardcover]

Unique guide to the main developments in adult-child relations during the last one hundred years.Children, Childhood and English Society, 1880-1990, reviews the most important debates and main findings from historians, sociologists and psychologists on a range of topics such as social policy, child-parent relations and the children's rights movement of the 1960s. * concise, reliable account of the evolution of some of the most important developments in adult-child relations during the last 100 years* no comparable book which examines debates and reports on findings* esssential reading for those interested in the origins of the welfare stateChildren, Childhood and English Society, 1880-1990, reviews the most important debates and main findings from historians, sociologists and psychologists on a range of topics such as social policy, child-parent relations and the children's rights movement of the 1960s. * concise, reliable account of the evolution of some of the most important developments in adult-child relations during the last 100 years* no comparable book which examines debates and reports on findings* esssential reading for those interested in the origins of the welfare stateThis book is intended to be a guide to the burgeoning literature on the history of childhood. Harry Hendrick reviews the most important debates and main findings of a number of historians on a range of topics including the changing social constructions of childhood, child-parent relations, social policy, schooling, leisure and the thesis that modern childhood is disappearing. The intention of this concise study is to provide readers with a reliable account of the evolution of some of the most important developments in adult-child relations during the past one hundred years. The author draws his material not only from historians but also from sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists and children's rights activists.Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. New ideas of childhood c. 1880192lC.