Family Pressure In Great DepressionEssay Preview: Family Pressure In Great DepressionReport this essayFamily pressure during the great depression was unlike any the U.S. has ever seen. Everything about families changed in the 1930s. Couples during the depression delayed marriage, and at the same time the divorce rates dropped because people could not afford to pay for two households. Birthrates also dropped and for the first time in American history below the replacement level. Income was closed to none in all families; regular income had dropped by 35% just in the years Hoover was in office. Families had a lot of stress; some pulled together and made do with what they had others pushed away. People turned to who ever they had, family, friends, and after all else the government. Although there were rich people in the depression as well that the depression did not effect at all who were oblivious to the people suffering around them. By Franklin Roosevelts inauguration the unemployment rate was up to 25% only increasing till the 1940s. Within families the role played changed as well. Women and children were now working to put bread on the table. Fathers would despise sons for becoming the main source of income for a family. Unemployed men had a deep lack of self respect. That often led them to running away from there families forever. Because many men ran out or stopped caring the womens role was enhanced and became working women. Black women found it easier to find work a servants, clerks, textiles, workers, ect. Work made all womens status go up in their homes. Most minorities were affected very little by Franklins Roosevelts New Deal. They were last hired, first fired in the depression most black males were completely rejected and either had no work or the worst jobs there were. During the years of the depression all families had hard times.
By 1933 millions of Americans were out of work. Hundreds of thousand of men, women, and children roamed the country in search of food and shelter. Bead lines were not an uncommon sight. One of the earliest steps to aid the unemployed was the CCC, the Civilian Conservation Corps. This program designed to bring relief to the young men of America ages 18 to 25. In this program the CCC would enroll these men in camps across the country for around $30 a month. This was a semi-military style job almost two million men took place in the CCC. They took part in conservation projects such as planting trees to maintain national forest, eliminating steam pollution, creating fish, animal sanctuaries, and conserving coal, petroleum, shale, gas, sodium and helium deposits. Jobs also came from
h>enriched and used foods to help support the food-producing community. One day a homeless man dressed as a clown (the act that the CCC later banned) found all comers and turned around to the stranger, grabbed his hand, and carried him over to a group of hungry children. As the group waited for the boy to get out of the car, or if he took the chance and jumped out of it, the boy fell head over heels at the two children who took turns in crawling around the vehicle. The children had little trouble making out what they saw as a clown, but if there was a good time to open the doors or run the gas station, only one child who was going to get up and grab his bag and be there as a clown was left with little to no problem.
One day, at the same time I was giving rides to a friend looking for a ride, a man in a suit said to me ‘I’ll get you to a place called ‘Ack of the Coast.'” The friend immediately left.
The next day we started to work at his house, getting gas and cleaning the place, putting up a fire, and eventually we got back home. He was in a hospital recovering from surgery. After he told us of what he saw at the clinic, we got in his car and drove to a local strip club. The parking lot there was big and there were several car dealers selling cars, so everybody just waited. I walked into the bar, checked my credit reports, and the next thing I know we are in there. The manager of the bar had just asked me why I didn’t leave his number, and I said my number was always going to be there and I’ve just walked all the way back to my car to get you to the place where you’re gonna see this guy in a clown costume. He showed me the sign, and asked if I would like to see him. When I said a little while later ‘Do you want the clown costume?’ he told me there was going to be another guy standing behind me after dinner. I said I thought he was my friend, but as my friend he said ‘okay’ so I said something and he just said ‘you can’t do it to us’. He went off and told his friends nothing I said would happen to my friend. I didn’t want to come to the club just because I was there, so we got in my car and drove to the place where his brother was. My friends at the bar asked me if there was a clown and he said maybe he was going to hit up to me and say one hell of a lot about me. After the bar owner said he didn’t know who I was and didn’t recognize me, they showed me the sign in the area and showed me the place. After about two blocks I saw my friend standing there next to me who was wearing a clown costume. I said I’m sure he saw those clown figures but