POST 4: INTEREST PART IV

In my readings I have found the following issues to be interesting in the History of Childhood:

1. Filius Nullius: The families that took them in (Part V: Page 240)
2. The Moral Revolution: To work or not to work—that is the question (Part V: Page 260)
3. Indentured Servants
4. Children and the New Deal
5. Children and War
6. Children as consumers
7. Boys and their need for speed: Cars, Motorcycles and Airplanes
8. Candy for Children
9. A mother’s touch and its significance
10. Literary works of children.

Although I am already considering a topic of Filipino American children in the twentieth century, I am also thinking of writing about the following:

1. Fillius Nullius: The families that took them in (Part V: Page 240)
2. Children and the New Deal
3. Children and War

My interest is shifting to these topics because they are a significant part of the development of the history of children. Whether you are an indentured servant or the son or daughter of an immigrant family, you have experienced one of the above.

The New Deal helped developed the mentality that children can earn a living and become educated at the same time. This promoted the outlook that children can be productive parts of society and in turn they themselves become better by being educated.

The child born out of wed lock is an interesting topic because during this time period, raising a child out of wed lock was taboo. No one wanted the child and adoption at the time was nonexistent. However, a generic form adoption was in place where families were paid for keeping a child for a year.

Even today’s times, young adults are still being used for war. Only recently out of school, young men and women are able to enlist a part of their lives to the military branch of their choice. Time has not changed; only now children are called young adults fresh from their parent’s homes.

There is vast information and resources on all of the above. The time we have left in the semester should be sufficient to finish the paper on time.

Comments

[FreeStoring]

hay!!
good project :)
senks :)