Summmary
In what I've read the other talks about how the parents are depending on the children. Mostly, it talks about how the parents are depending on their kids financially whether it be with having to work extra to keep their families from suffering and barely making it or it being the main provider in the family because the parents are too wake to do so. This in the end are making teens grow up way too fast as to having to work to support the rest of their family at such a young age. And the book also talks about how some teens had to work because some jobs for example would not give a man a chance at working unless they had a son too take lady take their place or even sometimes they would higher a younger teen before they would a older adult. Back then schooling was not seen as important for teenagers, it was more of a second choice to working opposed to being the first how it is now.
Quote: "Nevertheless, some qualities of these young people of the frontier-their love of mobility, their belif that they were entitled to have a good time, their sudden shifts from dependence to maturity and back-became part of that creature we know as a teenager" (Hine 137)
Reaction: As soon as I read this , I soon thought that this was the exactly true about teens. They were not at all fully adults nor was they kids but, to me they are a mixture of both. They are right in between going back and forth between the two. They are complicated for this very reason, because some things they do and thnk are similar to adults however, its sometimes like a child too. They go back and fourth between the two.
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