“It is as if, to every period of history, there corresponded a privileged age and a particular division of human life: "youth" is the privileged age of the seventeenth century, childhood of the nineteenth, adolescence of the twentieth.” IfsHumansAgeChildhoodCenturyYouthParticularPeriodsHuman LifeDivisionAdolescencePrivileged Book:Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life Source: Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life