TY - JOUR
T1 - Empathic childrearing and the adult construction of childhood
T2 - A psychohistorical look
AU - Kennedy, David
PY - 1998
Y1 - 1998
N2 - The (re)construction of childhood which began in the early modern period in the West had as its primary movement a reformulation of the adult-child relation as one between very different beings. This separation, which resulted in the isolation of children from the everyday world of adults in schools and the nuclear family, is interpreted as a necessary hermeneutical moment in the adult-child relation, in which the realization of psychological difference represented a dialectical prelude to the subsequent rapprochement and dialog which deMause has characterized as the 'empathic child-rearing mode'.
AB - The (re)construction of childhood which began in the early modern period in the West had as its primary movement a reformulation of the adult-child relation as one between very different beings. This separation, which resulted in the isolation of children from the everyday world of adults in schools and the nuclear family, is interpreted as a necessary hermeneutical moment in the adult-child relation, in which the realization of psychological difference represented a dialectical prelude to the subsequent rapprochement and dialog which deMause has characterized as the 'empathic child-rearing mode'.
KW - Adult-child relation
KW - Empathic childrearing
KW - History of childhood
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=3042867329&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0907568298005001002
DO - 10.1177/0907568298005001002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:3042867329
SN - 0907-5682
VL - 5
SP - 9
EP - 22
JO - Childhood
JF - Childhood
IS - 1
ER -