Family history is a key factor to understanding relative’s pasts, and most importantly, learning the things that family members have experienced and trials they have overcame. Family history has always intrigued me, as I want to know more about the times of the past and how my relatives grew up. As the world suffers today from instability and financial problems, I began to wonder what exactly it was like to grow up in the 1930’s during the Great Depression. This spark of thought made me relate this to the times when my grandfather grew up. Born in 1932, living in a rugged down home, striving to survive off of eating anything and everything possible. Never knowing when their parents would be home, living in fear. That is just the outline of
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Not because of their unimportance, but due to the mere fact that time continues on and new things approach at uncontrolled speeds. Although some of the small details of large events are lost, the crucial things that impact individual lives are left. The feelings that were felt during the event, and the ongoing effects on American Society and culture both remain. The Great Depression is an outstanding example of a large event that left an impact on American Society and especially effected the children’s feelings at that rivalrous time. As a result of the Great Depression, I learned that ultimately traditional parenting was altered due to the decreasing stability of income in America, most often leaving children home alone to fend for …show more content…
Children having to rely on themselves for their own food, as well as relying on very little money, resulted in great cases of malnutrition or even starvation among many young individuals. In many of the cases researched, children were left at a higher risk for greater diseases (Baronowski 867). Not having a parent home to help in times of need inevitably resulted in children losing the security of things they have once felt secure about. A smart man named Glen Elder changed my viewpoint of this by taking these points into view and giving insight by saying that economic hardships have significant effects on children as well as the families. He also stated that parents have a very important instrumental role in their child’s physical, emotional, emotional, and mental development (Elder, Linking 361). As children were raised in this time period, individuals had to adapt to their uncertainties, and become more self-reliable. Although these times were rough, in our society now, these people who challenged these trials are better able to survive with their self-reliance and their sense-of-security of their actions in our ever-changing
Not because of their unimportance, but due to the mere fact that time continues on and new things approach at uncontrolled speeds. Although some of the small details of large events are lost, the crucial things that impact individual lives are left. The feelings that were felt during the event, and the ongoing effects on American Society and culture both remain. The Great Depression is an outstanding example of a large event that left an impact on American Society and especially effected the children’s feelings at that rivalrous time. As a result of the Great Depression, I learned that ultimately traditional parenting was altered due to the decreasing stability of income in America, most often leaving children home alone to fend for …show more content…
Children having to rely on themselves for their own food, as well as relying on very little money, resulted in great cases of malnutrition or even starvation among many young individuals. In many of the cases researched, children were left at a higher risk for greater diseases (Baronowski 867). Not having a parent home to help in times of need inevitably resulted in children losing the security of things they have once felt secure about. A smart man named Glen Elder changed my viewpoint of this by taking these points into view and giving insight by saying that economic hardships have significant effects on children as well as the families. He also stated that parents have a very important instrumental role in their child’s physical, emotional, emotional, and mental development (Elder, Linking 361). As children were raised in this time period, individuals had to adapt to their uncertainties, and become more self-reliable. Although these times were rough, in our society now, these people who challenged these trials are better able to survive with their self-reliance and their sense-of-security of their actions in our ever-changing