Moving from a Society of Child-rearing Families to a Society of Child-free Adults

America has experienced tremendous social change. These changes make children less important for ordinary adult life. A report from a civil marriage project titled "Children's Social Retreat and How to Change the United States" is a dramatic change in the life experience of typical American adults, It is a child center that concludes that it is. There is a similar tendency in the UK. In September 2006, the children 's charity children' s society reaffirmed the understanding of society 's modern childhood and asked for independent investigation to inform, improve and stimulate parent - child relationship.

Parenting: The term "parenting" refers to the way children grow in society. Due to the possibility of influence of anthropologists in establishing the character of adults, differences in childcare practice caused interest (1; p. 120). In a study conducted in Wisconsin, the baby was robbed of the real monkey's mother during child rearing. As a result, a monkey with a mental disorder can not function together with a normal monkey society. To raise children on the street in the United States often deprives the mother from the real mother. Alcoholics, drug addicts and parents of gang members frequently ignore children (2C; p. 106). These children became criminals leaving behind examples. In humans and non-human primates, if a child functions within the social norm, it must receive appropriate child rearing (see below).

Child labor is an indispensable part of former industrial economy. In the society before the industrial revolution, in modern sense there is little concept of early childhood. When children are learned, they actively participate in childrearing, hunting, agriculture and other activities. In many societies, children up to the age of 13 are considered adults and do the same activities as adults. Because children need to work for the survival of children and their groups, child's work is important in pre-work society. The society before the Industrial Revolution has characteristics that the productivity is low and the average life expectancy is short. In the long run, it is more harmful for welfare and its group to prevent children from participating in productive work in the long run . In old industry society, children rarely need to go to school. Especially in a non-cultural society

In the traditional and early industrial society, women's roles are mainly limited to childbirth and child rearing, both of which are essential to the survival of society from the viewpoint of the high infant mortality rate and the short life expectancy. When a woman gives birth and needs to change population, she may be approaching the end of her life as she raises 4 or 5 children. Sexual norms are strictly used to promote reproduction, but only to homosexual families. Today, the infant mortality rate is much lower and the average life expectancy is longer, so postmodern society is moving toward sexual norms, providing greater freedom for personal sexual satisfaction and personal self-expression It is.