I would like a little more information about women "taking their children to work" (as if the industrial revolution were kind of like one big take your kids to work day). The impression I had was that children were SENT to work. Not to be watched but to contribute to the family income.)
There is no doubt that parents in earlier eras loved their children. But when your child might not make it passed age 10 (as one in three did up until 1920) the view of children, in urban or rural environments, was most like as CAPITAL in the family, not an investiment. Today, as our children tend to survive, we view them as an investiment. Part of the impetus for our obsessions with "am I spending enough time, money and educational resources on my child. Nancy Melucci LBCC -----Original Message----- 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 -- 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=12993.aba36cc3760e0b1c6a655f019a68b878&n=T&l=tips&o=3010 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-3010-12993.aba36cc3760e0b1c6a655f019a68b...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- 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=3026 or send a blank email to leave-3026-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
