Chapter 15:The Problem of the Children
Introduction
This chapter is about the problems children faced in the 1890's. It shows you the way the children were treated, and how they were treated which is completly different than how children today. These children had to face and deal with many tough decisions to live. These children were treated like adults and had harsh condition in the job they held and was not paid much at all for what they did.
Summary
The chapter is best said in one word about the children it is that they are treated "awful." In this book Riis best said "These children with training they receive- or do not receive- with the instincts they inherit and absorb in their growing up, are to be future rulers." The problem is, which Jacob Riis states, is that more children today are to poor to do anything. Those children are thrown out of schools to make room for others, are found dead, or become a beer runner for dad. If these children have no way of doing better than their dad then how is the city future suppose to change? Jacob Riis realize the problem and says "Nothing is now better understood than that the rescue of the children is the key to the problem of city poverty." The thing is the adults never cared about the children, they did not realize that the children would be the only way to stop the rapidly increasing poverty of New York. These parents would let them do whatever they wanted and treated them worse than animals. They would beat them and if they go missing not say anything. All in all how is it possible for the key of the city future for the children to be rescued if no one is really doing anything about it and no parents are raising and training their children right?
The chapter is best said in one word about the children it is that they are treated "awful." In this book Riis best said "These children with training they receive- or do not receive- with the instincts they inherit and absorb in their growing up, are to be future rulers." The problem is, which Jacob Riis states, is that more children today are to poor to do anything. Those children are thrown out of schools to make room for others, are found dead, or become a beer runner for dad. If these children have no way of doing better than their dad then how is the city future suppose to change? Jacob Riis realize the problem and says "Nothing is now better understood than that the rescue of the children is the key to the problem of city poverty." The thing is the adults never cared about the children, they did not realize that the children would be the only way to stop the rapidly increasing poverty of New York. These parents would let them do whatever they wanted and treated them worse than animals. They would beat them and if they go missing not say anything. All in all how is it possible for the key of the city future for the children to be rescued if no one is really doing anything about it and no parents are raising and training their children right?