Western European Attitudes Towards Children
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“How were western European attitudes toward children during the 1750-1900?”
The western European attitudes toward children and child rearing were that they had trained and disciplined the children within the home setting. Which make their home life and their economic life the same?
In the 1830, the workers became concern about the plight of child rearing, because the parents were no longer in control of the childrens discipline in the factories. That later it created the act of 1833, called English factory act. It for bided the employment of children under the age of nine or below. It also limited the workday of children in the age of nine through the age of thirteen by nine hours. It was required that children should be able to take two hours of education a day and it would be paid by the factory owners. It later divided the time of work and home life, which the children often worked for four to six hours. The education of the children was then required to remove nurturing from the home and family. Adults were later forced to spend more time with there children, which allowed children to have more hours together since their relationship at work had taken a lot of time form the adults to spend most of it with there children. Parents and children now depended on sharing their own wages. Children were that found wages easily were able to live at there house until they had enough savings to marry and then begin their own household, this meant that children were with there parents longer then they should be. Later the industrial economy produced a big impact on the family life only for women. Which made then associate with housekeeping, food preparation, child rearing and nurturing, while men work?
In the 1819, the factory act limited the child labor in the cotton industry. Women then were in the stage of pregnancy were later unwanted by factory owners and instead the women were made to do child