I've heard that family life as well as the life of children have both drastically changed over the last 100 years or so, with the modern family coming to form as recent as the 1950s.

What I've read is that children used to not receive much affection from their parents and corporeal punishment was a major thing for parents to do back in the day.

No only that, but I've been told that the concept of a child by how we view it didn't exist prior to the 1950s.

I wish to know if this is true or not.

Let me know in the comments below.