did the 1800s and 1900s have any signs of child abuse?

Question

i need to know any info on the past like 18 and 1900s about child abuse

Answer 1

I think the way most parents raised their children then would be considered child abuse these days. BAck then it was perfectly acceptable to beat your kid with a belt or a switch. Hell, even most school would hit you over the knuckles for minor infractions.

Answer 2

Absolutely yes. Children were considered to be small adults and the property of their parents. Whipping with switches was common, as was beating with belts, boards... including in the schools, when there were schools. Children were considered a source of cheap labor, and starting with the industrial revolution in the late 18th century, worked in very very dangerous conditions seven days a week 12 or more hours a day for practically nothing. If they were injured, they were simply fired. Child labor laws weren't passed until early in the 20th century as people began to realize that children are different than adults. It was not a good time to be a child. Even when I was young in the fifties and sixties, what a parent did to punish a child was considered a family matter. We knew about child abuse happening up the street, but there was nothing we could do about it. We didn't even have the term "child abuse". We just knew that the father of the family was going way too far- and this was in the days when hitting your children was expected. All we could do was feel sorry for the kids,and let them stay over at our house a lot.

Answer 3

Look up child labor ,industrial revolution,sweatshops .The abuse children and adults suffered before labor laws were passed was horribleMany indian residential school students suffered much abuse ranging from physical and sexual abuse .Some wound up dying under mysterious circumstances.The government of Canada had an agenda of genocide for aboriginals and tried to brainwash as many kids as they could into thinking they were white .They would kidnap them off of reserves ,tell them their parents were dead ,tell the parents their child had died.They would tell them horrible lies about native people day after day for years to get them to hate them.they would give them a picture of someone and they told them it was their father and his nationality (usually French,Scottish,Greek or Russian).Strangely the government pretty much used the same pictures over and over again.For example they would use the picture of the guy who was supposed to be French and point it instructing the students "He's french,He's wearing a beret"The hat the man in the photo is actually a traditional hat worn by men of the Cree tribe.For the most part this brainwashing is not supposed to have been very effective but it is still surprising how many people I have met(15) that did not know what happened to them and where they really came from.It is a very sad chapter in Canadian history that lasted for over a hundred years by 1996 the last of these schools was closed ... at least that what the government says.

Answer 4

Yeah, look up child labor laws and find out what year those went into affect. Before then you could work at any age, and children were often used because of their size and you didn't have to pay them as much and they were afraid to stand up for themselves. As far as PARENTS abusing their children, there has always been child abuse, it's just that nobody ever stepped in and tried to stop it.

Answer 5

Check out on the history information on the child labor laws or around the time that the union became in existence. that should give plenty of information on how children were treated in those times.
The age old battle of man and women also had nippets of what the child went through.They were known as a sub-species and treated like that. 1910 to around 1920 I believe.

Answer 6

Heh, heh...if you consider working in a mill or foundry at 7 I'd say yes. Go search the internet and look up child labor laws. Do some work for a change and alittle research too. it won't kill you. You can always go back to the cellphone and chatrooms later.

Answer 7

I don't know if this helps but this may be useful to look up:

The first published work dedicated specifically to child sexual abuse appeared in France in 1857: Medical-Legal Studies of Sexual Assault (Etude Médico-Légale sur les Attentats aux Mœurs), by Auguste Ambroise Tardieu, the noted French pathologist and pioneer of forensic medicine (Masson, 1984, pp. 15-25).

Answer 8

what type of abuse are you referring to? Back then, it was ok to marry off a teen-ager. Today it's a crime. Back then most kids were put to work either in the family business or in manufacturing plants under the most deplorable conditions imaginable for equally deplorable pay - virtually slave laborers.

Today we regard that as abuse. Back then, it was business as usual. Times change, mores change.

Answer 9

They put little boys up chimneys so they would clean them and therefore, their lungs got filled with soot and many of them died young . . . that's child abuse I would say, but I guess you're looking for actual physical abuse?

Answer 10

very good question I wish alot more people answer this question because I personally think it almost has became a new trend like, or it seems, either that or it wasn't heard as much