childhood

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• SOURCE: Parapraxis
  2/6/2023
  

  Deconstructing "The Child"

  by Jules Gill-Peterson

  Since the Victorian era, Anglo-American conceptions of childhood have worked ideologically to place children at risk of harm through the justifying idea of love, and hide the reality that only a tiny percentage of young people experience youth as protected, secure, and nurtured. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  11/8/2022
  

  How Did Childhood Folklore Spread Before the Internet?

  "Folklore is by its nature not handed down by an authority. It is of the people, by the people—even if those people are children."

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  7/26/2022
  

  Have Children Changed in Modern America?

  by Steven Mintz

  A recent argument for the general stability of children over the last century and a half misses the key point that "childhood" has been a fluid concept, and changes in how childhood is understood has necessarily affected the experiences of children. 

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• SOURCE: Observer
  6/29/2022
  

  Our Gruesome Politics are Destroying the Cultural Ideal of Childhood

  by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

  The romantic ideal of children as innocents deserving of the protection of adults has long been a rallying cry for politicians. After two pandemic years and more school shootings, are they even pretending to care anymore? 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5/19/2022
  

  What Parents Did Before Baby Formula

  by Carla Cevasco

  "The formula shortage is not a victory for breastfeeding. It is a calamity for families who, like families throughout history, just want to feed their children."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/18/2022
  

  Women Know You Can't Just Replace Formula with Breastfeeding

  by Laura Earls

  Breastfeeding advocacy is historically tied as much to a prescriptive and sentimental image of motherhood and maternal attachment as to concern for babies' health, and has long ignored physical and social obstacles to nursing. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  3/2/2021
  

  Toys are Ditching Genders for the Same Reason they First Took them On

  by Paul Ringel

  While social conservatives may bemoan the rise of gender-neutral toys as an attack on traditional values, the history of marketing to children suggests that the impetus for the change isn't coming from the "woke" but from the market. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  1/22/2021
  

  White Americans have Weaponized the Idea of Girlhood

  by Crystal Webster

  The concept of childhood has elastic boundaries; in a racist society, those boundaries stretch to portray whites as innocents deserving protection and Black youth as dangerous and susceptible to punishment. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/17/2020
  

  The Pandemic is Traumatic for Kids Like Mine. I Have No Idea How to Help Them

  by David Perry

  Adults' failure to handle the COVID pandemic will have profound effects on a generation of children, even those who seem do be doing OK with virtual schools and social isolation.