Jim Clark wrote: > Hi > > It is amazing that earlier generations of children survived with daddy at > work from morning to night and mommy slaving away in the kitchen and rest of > the house to keep the home fires burning! Is it not probably the case that > children today generally have far more contact with their parents than was > historically true?
I agree that we often make too much of technology, but I think your "historical" remark is way off base. Until the 1940s, most mothers stayed at home with their children, and those mothers who worked out of the home often took their children to work with them (necessitating child labor laws). In addition, there was no universal public education for most until the mid-late 19th century (depending on where one lived), and farm kids from a young age did chores around the farm with their parents. As late as 1900, only 40% of the US population (and far less of the world population) lived a rural life. http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=NC4&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&tbs=tl%3A1&q=history+urban+population+US&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai= Chris -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-2100 ex. 66164 [email protected] http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ ========================== --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=3010 or send a blank email to leave-3010-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
