The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis by Rifkin Jeremy

Author:Rifkin, Jeremy [Rifkin, Jeremy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2009-12-14T00:00:00+00:00

IDEALIZING CHILDHOOD

The shift from companionate to romantic relationships spilled over into child rearing. Mary Ryan observes that relations in the home, which had already been undergoing a change in the past century, moved even further “from patriarchal authority to maternal affection.”81

In 1808, a retired natural history teacher in Limoges reminisced about the kind of brutal childhood his generation experienced and the very different childhood that children experience now. He wrote that when he was a child,Fear was the principle on which upbringing was founded.

Whoever taught the children to read would grab their shirts about the shoulders, then hold the book in one hand, the rod in the other, ready to fl ail away at the slightest oversight.82

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