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Jul 28, 2015 · Innocence used to be a religious notion in earlier times. With the Enlightenment and success of Rousseau’s Émile, nature becomes a new point of reference. From the 19th century onward, the idea of children’s innocence is strongly interrelated with children’s sexuality.
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Dec 30, 2020 · One way that childhood innocence exerts its obliterating effects is through its ability to transfer innocence to those within its proximity (Bernstein, Citation 2011). This is important because of what innocence implies.
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Feb 24, 2020 · Why does growing up mean losing the joys of innocence and falling from trusting our loved ones? Time often steels our childhood innocence from us where does it go?
Apr 29, 2010 · In a new book, Harvard professor Robin Bernstein says that the concept of childhood innocence only dates to the 19th century, and was only applied to whites.
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question: why can politicians, interests groups and media invoke the defence of childhood innocence, certain that it will gar ner widespread community support and silence opposition? In seeking to understand our anxieties, Faulkner begins with what we mean by childhood innocence and why it is so important to us.
Jul 5, 2011 · Threats to childhood innocence have been the subject of a succession of moral panics: the commercial exploitation of children; physical and behavioural disorders; the early sexualisation of pre-adolescent ‘tweenies’; exposure to media violence and internet porn; child abuse and neglect; and most alarming of all, sexual predation by paedophiles.
Innocence continues to structure our culture’s intergenerational relationships. It shapes the environments in which we place children and, of course, the cultural products we offer them and expect them to enjoy. It authorizes practice and discourse around childhood in legal and legislative contexts.
