Formal Essay: Children in History
About 30 percent of the slaves in Medieval Florence, Padua, Venice, Sicily, and Naples were children. Children are very vulnerable to adults, the adults can impact the children as a positive and negative influence. The question remains today while constantly changing over time and locations, of “How do adults view the value of young people and how have they used that value to their advantage at different times and places in history either by greed or in times of necessity?” Children can be persuaded to work for free even if they don’t know it by threat, manipulation or necessity. At different times and places in history, adults have not valued the lives of children and have seen young people as resources, tools, and debt payments.
RESOURCES Throughout history children, often referred to as “young people”, are used as resources by adults to work in order to survive or provide for their families. Often their value was considered less important than adults as identified in an Article written by Angel and Patricia Colon in 2001 titled “History of Children: A …show more content…
He could sell them into slavery or servitude.” And while slavery is still slavery, at least CODE 117 imposed a three year limit to this slavery. In Europe, women who were slaves abandoned their children so their children would not become slaves. “There was such a large number of abandoned babied in Paris that Vincent de Paul (1581-1660) began a home for abandoned children” and orphanages sprang up around the world. “In large urban areas the police found a dead child in the sewer or streets almost every day”. In the Middle Ages “Some families made trade agreements for children as trade for sheep and some children were indentured to domestic service and expected to pay
About 30 percent of the slaves in Medieval Florence, Padua, Venice, Sicily, and Naples were children. Children are very vulnerable to adults, the adults can impact the children as a positive and negative influence. The question remains today while constantly changing over time and locations, of “How do adults view the value of young people and how have they used that value to their advantage at different times and places in history either by greed or in times of necessity?” Children can be persuaded to work for free even if they don’t know it by threat, manipulation or necessity. At different times and places in history, adults have not valued the lives of children and have seen young people as resources, tools, and debt payments.
RESOURCES Throughout history children, often referred to as “young people”, are used as resources by adults to work in order to survive or provide for their families. Often their value was considered less important than adults as identified in an Article written by Angel and Patricia Colon in 2001 titled “History of Children: A …show more content…
He could sell them into slavery or servitude.” And while slavery is still slavery, at least CODE 117 imposed a three year limit to this slavery. In Europe, women who were slaves abandoned their children so their children would not become slaves. “There was such a large number of abandoned babied in Paris that Vincent de Paul (1581-1660) began a home for abandoned children” and orphanages sprang up around the world. “In large urban areas the police found a dead child in the sewer or streets almost every day”. In the Middle Ages “Some families made trade agreements for children as trade for sheep and some children were indentured to domestic service and expected to pay