What is “childhood”? When was it invented? The same time as candy canes?

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Sources:

• The Imperfect Child
• Child labor and the division of labor in the early English cotton mills
• Adolescence and Youth in Early Modern England
• ‘A Prospect of Flowers’: Concepts of Childhood and Female Youth in Seventeenth-Century British Culture
• Time
• New York Times
• Snopes
• Today I Found Out