IPOSTAZE ALE COPILĂRIEI ÎN SATELE MOŢILOR CRIŞENI, ÎNAINTE ŞI DUPĂ AL DOILEA RĂZBOI MONDIAL
The Image of Childhood in the Villages Nearby Brad (Hunedoara County) Before and After the World War II

Summary/Abstract: Although this study is not focused on a large research on childhood, it does reveal main aspects of childhood related to the evolution of the villages nearby Brad, during interwar and the communist regime, the segment of collectivization. Comparing to nowadays, the elders reveals realities of their childhood between the two World Wars: having certain housework to do – in their family or hired by rich families - , bad dressed and having poor dreams for their future. Afterwar, the descendants of kulaks regret their childhood ill-spent in the class struggle of the authorities against their relatives: full of humiliations and restrictions. Generally speaking, regarding the childhood, the role of school is more and more important, as a mean of blackmail for the parents in order to force them to join the collectivization and an instrument for communist indoctrination. The economic duty of the child in the house is diminished, but it is related to the whole family duty for collectivization.

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