ok. i hate to ask again but.. im doin a projecton children of the great depression & i REALLY need help..?

Question

doesnt anyone know anything? j.k. but..
if you know ANYTHING at all.. even if its juss one little pipsqueak thing..
please!!!!!
**please list source(s)

Answer 1

The children of the Great Depression fought tooth-and-nail for things that most Americans take for granted every day. They grew up in hardship and learned to make more out of less.

The facts are still staggering, as we learn from Russell Freedman's recent, award-winning The Children of the Great Depression and from an earlier volume by Kathleen Thompson and Hilary MacAustin, that looks at the same decade and the effects it had on young people. In 1933, Thompson and MacAustin write, "34 million men, women, and children were entirely without income. That was 28 percent of the American people then." At this same time, they continue, "a quarter of a million children were homeless . . . . at least one in five were hungry and without adequate clothing . . . [and] In some regions, especially coal-mining regions, as many as 90 percent of the children were malnourished."

There are several books written about the children of the depression if you have time to read them. Sites are noted below.

Answer 2

There is actually a book entitled this that you may want to check out.25th Anniversary Edition of Children of the Great Depression, by Glen H. Elder, Jr., Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999. ISBN: 0813333423

Originally published in 1974, Children of the Great Depression presented the first longitudinal study of a Depression cohort. This 25th anniversary edition of the much acclaimed work includes a new chapter by the author which explores how World War II and the Korean War changed the lives of these California youth who were born in 1920-21 and those of a younger birth cohort (1928-29). The chapter also reviews the project's contributions to theory and method in the study of lives.

Here is an interesting website:
http://newdeal.feri.org/eleanor/er2a.htm
Also, why don't you interview some 80 year olds?

Answer 3

My parents were born in 1915 and 1922 respectively. Both lived on farms, and remembered working in the onion fields picking onions to help out the family at a very young age.