families and households - the future of childhood

Question 1

postman

Answer 1

argued that childhood as we know it is disappearing, and that children are becoming more like adults - gaining similar rights and acting in similar ways e.g clothing, leisure and even crime

for postman this was due to television culture replacing print culture:
-print culture - children lacked the literacy skills needed to access information, so adults could keep knowledge like sex, money, violence, illness and death away from them
-television culture - makes information available to adults and children alike

Question 2

opie

Answer 2

opie believes that childhood is not disappearing unlike postman
eg children culture continues to exist in the form of games, songs and jokes etc