Has Childhood Changed?
By Charve' Brown
The purpose of this assignment is to examine if childhood has changed in the past 40 to 50 years. For the assignment I interviewed a 9 year old African American female and a 54 year old African American female. During my interview I found out that childhood has changed tremendously. Morals and values have been subsided due to priorities. Then on the contrary stress has taken a dramatic rise due to more children being raised in a single-parent home. In this paper I covered these basic areas: family history, school, friends, and extra-curricular activities.
When I asked the 9 year old (Trinity) to tell me about her family she started out with "I have a dad, a mom, and a grandmother." Then I asked her did she live with all those people? Trinity said, "well, no I live with my mom and grandmother, but my daddy comes to see me every week and sometimes at school during the week." We kept the conversation going in that direction and I asked......
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