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Were children cared for in early modern English Society?
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Were children cared for in early modern English Society? Early modern English child rearing practices like wet-nursing, swaddling, prescriptive literature and apparent lack of parental emotional attachment has caused much discussion, regarding the care of children. Philippe Aries and Lawrence Stone used these ideas, amongst others, to suggest that parents did not care for their children. Their ideas have been challenged by a number of historians who argue that, through research of first hand accounts in diaries and official records, it is clear that children were cared for and even though these practices appear to our modern society as uncaring and cruel they were, in fact, carried out with the best of intentions. Aries in Centuries of Childhood (1962) claimed that before medieval times the idea of a state of childhood was non-existent and parents were not aware of the need to treat them any differently to adults. He studied the depiction...
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