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Historical Perspectives on Childhood

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Which historical period is often seen as the beginning of the modern concept of childhood?

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The Enlightenment
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During the Enlightenment, philosophers such as John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau began to argue that children were not simply small adults, but rather had their own unique needs and developmental stages.

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