Abstract
Abstract This paper describes how in modern industrial society childhood has become a devalued and stigmatized condition. The terms child, childishness, and child-like are used to broadcast to society that there is something that is not quite right about a point of view, an individual or a political position. The paper describes the rhetorical stigmatization of childhood in contemporary social thought and examines the ideological significance of this devaluation.
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