Brian Sutton-Smith

When schools became more universal in the expanding industrial society between 1890 and 1920, a new emphasis on the control of children developed, and from 1920 onwards, adult supervision in the form of heavily organized sports and playgrounds encroached more and more upon the untamed freedom of the rural environment. The play of the children in the twentieth century has not always been voluntary, nor intrinsically motivated. From 1920 onwards such...

Abstract: Very few sibling studies were designed to illuminate developmental changes occuring during the middle childhood years. The existing cross-sectional studies of children representing ages 6-12 yield scant suggestion of the developmental changes occurring during middle childhood, particularly for sibling relations. However, depending on the phase of middle childhood being experienced by one or more siblings in the family, sibling experiences...