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As difficult as they are to accept in 1976, the concepts of childhood
and adolescence developed and became fixed only in the last
400 years. At the end of the Middle Ages, rather than the "child"
being relegated to toys, fairy tales and games, and the "adolescent"
to the contemporary equivalents of rock music, petting and
cars, they, or at least those beyond 6 years old, were one with
adults sharing work, living space and recreations. The separate
world of childhood and adolescence, the prolonged period of dependency--
or infantilization, if you will--did not then exist.
Compulsory education laws and industrialization, with its demand
for skilled labor and urbanization, combined to develop
further a separate world of childhood and adolescence. In turn
this led to the semi-ghettoization of the "adolescent," who, like
other excluded groups, defensively banded together and created
her and his own culture of sex, drugs, clothing, music and political
attitudes. This artificial demarcation and its consequences
appear mainly in the so-called western world, which is economically,
but not socially, overdeveloped and predominantly middle
class; but do not appear in the majority populations of the underdeveloped
Asian, African, Middle Eastern and South American
nations.
: Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care Volume 6 issue 11 1976 [doi 10.1016%2Fs0045-9380%2876%2980002-3] Joel Fort -- Youth- Drugs, sex and life.pdf

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