Childhood in Pre-Industrial Europe
This 5 page report discusses what childhood was like in the pre-Industrial Europe compared to what it is like at the close of the 20th century. Disease, brutal living conditions for those not of the aristocratic or upper-middle classes, early entrance into backbreaking labor, and little or no education was standard for the average European child up until the late 19th century and often beyond. Children moved into adulthood far more quickly then than they do today, since they were needed to contribute to the community and were thus inducted into adulthood as soon as physically possible. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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