Walter Sander's Caring Too Young

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In Walter Sander’s photograph “Caring too Young” it shows a little girl playing with a baby doll as if it was a real baby. In this black and white picture, Sanders shows the time period what life was like for children back then. The camera made the little girl look like she’s trying to take care of the baby doll as if the doll was real. In the 1950’s, little girls were learning how to care for their younger siblings and clean the house while their mothers were at work. World War ll just ended and the economy was booming, at this time more people started having children. Sander’s photograph shows how kids in that time didn’t really have a childhood and they had to learn to care for others at a young age. Children shouldn’t have to worry

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