1. This is an on-going debate to a certain degree (I mainly have encountered it via Phillipe Ariès's Centuries of Childhood). But I have never bought the argument that childhood is a modern invention. If you actually read primary sources from the period it is abundantly clear that parents sought to protect their children,…
这已经不是我第一次听说这个了——菲利普·阿利埃斯（Philippe Ariès）的《儿童的世纪》（Centuries of Childhood）一书里就提到过文学作品中关于这种习俗的记载。如果我没记错的话（也可能记错了），书中提到这在某个时期很普遍，但在那之前或之后都不是。总的来说……
It's not the first time I hear about this — i.e. the book "Centuries of Childhood" by Philippe Ariès writes a bit about mentions of this habit in literature. If I remember correctly (which I may not), it mentions it was common for some period, but neither before or after. In general…
"People in the Middle Ages don't care about their children" was a real view argued by Phillip Aries in Centuries of Childhood: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centuries_of_Childhood
…that's bad on many levels. Marking kids as legally incapable of labor and putting them into a 20-year timeout as they engage in educational busywork solves this problem. Confession: never actually read Centuries of Childhood( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centuries_of_Childhood )
1. 某种程度上说，这仍然是一个未有定论的争论（我主要是通过菲利普·阿利埃斯的《儿童的世纪》接触到这个话题的）。但我从来不信“童年是现代发明”这种说法。如果你真去读读那个时期的一手文献，就能非常清楚地看到父母其实一直在尽力保护自己的孩子，……
1. This is an on-going debate to a certain degree (I mainly have encountered it via Phillipe Ariès's Centuries of Childhood). But I have never bought the argument that childhood is a modern invention. If you actually read primary sources from the period it is abundantly clear that parents sought to protect their children,…
这已经不是我第一次听说这个了——菲利普·阿利埃斯（Philippe Ariès）的《儿童的世纪》（Centuries of Childhood）一书里就提到过文学作品中关于这种习俗的记载。如果我没记错的话（也可能记错了），书中提到这在某个时期很普遍，但在那之前或之后都不是。总的来说……
It's not the first time I hear about this — i.e. the book "Centuries of Childhood" by Philippe Ariès writes a bit about mentions of this habit in literature. If I remember correctly (which I may not), it mentions it was common for some period, but neither before or after. In general…
“中世纪的人不在乎自己的孩子”确实是菲利普·阿利埃斯在《儿童的世纪》中提出的观点：https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centuries_of_Childhood
"People in the Middle Ages don't care about their children" was a real view argued by Phillip Aries in Centuries of Childhood: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centuries_of_Childhood
……从很多层面来看这都很糟糕。在法律上认定儿童不具备劳动能力，并让他们在长达 20 年的“禁闭期”里忙于应付各种学业杂务，就解决了这个问题。老实交代：其实我从来没读过《儿童的世纪》（https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centuries_of_Childhood ）
…that's bad on many levels. Marking kids as legally incapable of labor and putting them into a 20-year timeout as they engage in educational busywork solves this problem. Confession: never actually read Centuries of Childhood( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centuries_of_Childhood )