Stop the Neglect By: Lexi Armbright Imagine sending your child to work and not knowing if they will be back or not. This is the reality for many families in different countries. There are many issues that are affecting this world little at a time. But one that is absolutely disturbing is the lack of child labor laws in so many countries. Child labor laws control the age and amount of work a child is doing.
Young children could be hired to do the same jobs as adults for much less pay and could often fit into places adults couldn't. Parish apprentices were the most exploited type of child worker (Dunlop, 1912). These were children, who were either orphans or abandoned by their parents, that were under the care of local parishes. Mill owners bought the children from the parishes for the purpose of labor. The mill owners housed and fed the children in lieu of pay.
Their importance in colonial America would be shaped through the roles of maintaining household and farm order, encouraging faith and moral development, and the role of a subordinate to men. In early settlement, land was plentiful and cheap, but the labor to maintain it was expensive. Women the 1600s to the early 1700s had to work almost as much as their male counterparts, but the separation of labor meant that the two genders were productive in different ways. Men, similar to most cultures, tended the farm, worked on construction, and completed tasks on fields or around the settlements. Women, however, usually stayed at home to take care of the children, prepare the food, make clothing and other material products, and the women usually directed indentured servants in the absence of the male dominant.
And he does not take into account the social context in which they were produced. On the other hand, his work is valuable as it shows how children´s social status and ideas have changed over time. Another reason of why sociologists think that childhood has become more child-centred is due to the introduction of compulsory schooling in 1880. this benefited mainly the poorer children as some upper class children had already been receiving education. They argue that this has extended the period if dependency. Moreover, declining family size and lower infant mortality rates has encouraged parents to make a greater financial investment in the fewer children that they have.
Children are hindered by these kinds of schools, teachers and peers lay a big role in the children’s lives. Some teachers are there for the income it will bring into their house hold and not the well-being of the child and students are pressued by their peers into thinking that education is lame and for losers. In most cases this is what children of low income go through but not all. Many may not realize that the surroundings of children may sometimes affect their future. Being raised in a low income area surrounded by people living the same lifestyle as you as if struggling is the norm of society.
U136/1.1.2. Evaluate the relationship between theoretical perspectives and early years curriculum models. There have been and will to come be many theorists opinions that have helped shape changes in childcare. In medieval times children were often sent out to work at a very early age and childhood was not valued or cherished as it is today. Children from poor families were expected to earn a living as soon as possible and children from noble families were schooled.
They also seemed to have lost much of the value system that most of us took for granted growing up. By examining the roles of children in the past, we may be able to trace the source of the problems that we are having with today's troubled youth. In olden days, children were treated as small adults and given many of the same responsibilities that were shouldered by their parents. Youngsters worked side by side with their parents in the fields as soon as they could walk. Children serving as soldiers were not uncommon in some countries.
Functionalism and the Family 1. Once the family were a unit of production that was often based upon family based production particularly in pre-industrial times and the family was often self-sufficient with production and distribution carried out by custom and tradition. High mortality rates and low means of production meant life was short and hard in these times especially in rural areas where family was often centred with male children being a priority for survival as strength was typically trait linked to men. Goods were not only produced for consumption but for trade in the market as well. In order to sustain this style of economy, high fertility rates were absolutely necessary to maintain the supply of labour demand without little care for literacy other than basic understanding of the bible.
Throughout history men are seen as the “strong/tough ones”; the belief is that they should be paid more than women in order to support their families (Loney, 2005). Women often take time off from work to raise their children, which can interfere with their career path. Also, married women with children are more likely to leave their jobs, rather than women who are single and/or without
The Domestic Division of Labour refers to the roles that men and women play in relation to housework, childcare and paid work. Parsons (1995) argues that in a traditional nuclear family the roles of husband and wife are segregated, in his view the husband plays an instrumental role geared towards achieving success at work so he can provide financially, being the breadwinner. The woman has an expressive role geared towards primary socialisation of children and meeting the emotional needs. Parsons said that these roles made things ‘nice and functional’ for society. He also argued division of labour is based on biological differences between men and women, as women are naturally suited towards nurturing role and men to a powerful role.