Great Depression Children
Kids Coping with Crisis: Children Throughout The Great Depression
Starving and desperate, ranging from eight to eighteen; children, spread from coast to coast with one common goal in mind-to survive. The 1929 crash of the stock market left families across the country confused and chaotic. Through personal diary entries dating from the 1930’s and illustrious flashback’s detailing life for children during the Great Depression, it is evident, through their different backgrounds their need and hope to persevere and accomplish their American dream of surviving famine.
Lots are to blame for the 1929 crash of the stock market one of which being soleful faith in the economy. Others believe the lack of federal influence in national banks left banks …show more content…
Many of which attempted to support children of America. One of which sparking the New Deal programs,“Child welfare advocates attending the U.S. Children's Bureau's Child Health Recovery Conference on October 6, 1933, called for emergency food relief.. FERA and Children's Bureau quickly implemented the Child Health Recovery Program (CHRP)..emergency food and medical care to America's poorest children”(Lindemeyer). By introducing a federal program which directly helped starving children, many people began discussing the implementation of other programs to lend direct relief. Starting off first for those teenage drifter nomads who had abandoned their families in belief of being another mouth to feed, “In March 1933 Congress established the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). For the next nine years the CCC employed more than 2.5 million males aged seventeen through twenty-three.” (Lindemeyer). With wandering young people being covered next on the agenda was students taking part in their education and the unemployed, “The NYA provided part-time work-relief for high school and college-aged students, as well as full-time jobs for unemployed young people no longer in school.”(Lindenmeyer) Moving forward a common flaw overlooked from this time period was the lack of protection over child workers thus the introduction of the child labor restrictions being modified “The 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act successfully wrote child labor restrictions into federal law for the first time...set regulations for the employment of sixteen and seventeen year olds, and prohibited all minors from working in specific industries.” (Lindemeyer). While these efforts were productive and motivational, the Great Depression for many would not end until the actual beginning of World War
Starving and desperate, ranging from eight to eighteen; children, spread from coast to coast with one common goal in mind-to survive. The 1929 crash of the stock market left families across the country confused and chaotic. Through personal diary entries dating from the 1930’s and illustrious flashback’s detailing life for children during the Great Depression, it is evident, through their different backgrounds their need and hope to persevere and accomplish their American dream of surviving famine.
Lots are to blame for the 1929 crash of the stock market one of which being soleful faith in the economy. Others believe the lack of federal influence in national banks left banks …show more content…
Many of which attempted to support children of America. One of which sparking the New Deal programs,“Child welfare advocates attending the U.S. Children's Bureau's Child Health Recovery Conference on October 6, 1933, called for emergency food relief.. FERA and Children's Bureau quickly implemented the Child Health Recovery Program (CHRP)..emergency food and medical care to America's poorest children”(Lindemeyer). By introducing a federal program which directly helped starving children, many people began discussing the implementation of other programs to lend direct relief. Starting off first for those teenage drifter nomads who had abandoned their families in belief of being another mouth to feed, “In March 1933 Congress established the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). For the next nine years the CCC employed more than 2.5 million males aged seventeen through twenty-three.” (Lindemeyer). With wandering young people being covered next on the agenda was students taking part in their education and the unemployed, “The NYA provided part-time work-relief for high school and college-aged students, as well as full-time jobs for unemployed young people no longer in school.”(Lindenmeyer) Moving forward a common flaw overlooked from this time period was the lack of protection over child workers thus the introduction of the child labor restrictions being modified “The 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act successfully wrote child labor restrictions into federal law for the first time...set regulations for the employment of sixteen and seventeen year olds, and prohibited all minors from working in specific industries.” (Lindemeyer). While these efforts were productive and motivational, the Great Depression for many would not end until the actual beginning of World War