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From: Christopher D. Green <[email protected]>
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) <[email protected]>
Sent: Thu, Jun 10, 2010 9:42 am
Subject: Re: [tips] Does Being Plugged In Means You Ignore Your Kids?


 

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

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