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BOCANEGRA ACOSTA, Elsa María. Child-rearing practices from Colonial times to the Independence of Colombia: Discourses that make them visible. Rev.latinoam.cienc.soc.niñez juv [online]. 2007, vol.5, n.1, pp.201-232. ISSN 1692-715X.

The first objective of this paper is to indicate different horizons for child-rearing practices; the second objective is to present an analytic approach that emphasizes the way in which child-rearing practices show social representations of little boys and girls which result in different rearing practices, ranging from coercive to permissive and tolerant; a third objective is to show child-rearing practices in Colombia during Colonial times, in the 18th Century, and in the period of Independence at the beginning of the 19th (1810-1819) as they appear in handwritten documents. These documents contain discourses that make it possible to re-enter a time in which boys and girls are mentioned only in archival collections related to matters of legal suits, inheritance and police. These documents relate children to bandages and girdles, nursemaids, servants and orphanages, but they also speak of their importance, of the need to protect them, and to exercise them in games appropriate to their age. These maxims still appeal to us today.

Palabras clave : Child-rearing practices; Colonial period; period of Independence; nursemaids; child exposure; orphanages.

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