Has childhood changed? The purpose of this assignment is to examine whether childhood has changed over the past 40 to 50 years. For this assignment, I interviewed a 9-year-old African-American woman and a 54-year-old African-American woman. During my interview, I discovered that childhood has changed enormously. Morals and values ​​have been weakened due to priorities. On the contrary, stress has increased dramatically due to the increasing number of children raised in single-parent families. In this article, I covered these basic areas: family history, school, friends, and extracurricular activities. When I asked the 9-year-old (Trinity) about her family, she began with, “I have a father, a mother. , and a grandmother. Then I asked her if she lived with all these people? Trinity said, “well, no, I live with my mom and grandma, but my dad comes to see me every week and sometimes at school during the week. » We continued the conversation in this direction and I asked him to tell me about his school. Trinity loved school even though she was teased a lot for not having a “complete” family. His school was a large city school where diversity was not an issue. Even the classes were well distributed with students of all kinds. Trinity did, however, have a small group of friends that she appreciated. She didn't really try to fit in with most of the other kids because she said everyone teased her. She sometimes worried about the things people said about her and her father (Joshua). Especially since she absolutely loved her father. Once, she even hit a girl at school and that was the day her father came to have lunch with her. She said she told him the girl was picking on her. She said her father told her to tell someone what happens next time and not try to handle it alone. “Good girls don't fight, T (that's what her father called her for short)” was what she remembered him saying. Then she started to come back to her family a little. She said she always enjoyed spending time with her father. She especially enjoyed it when he came to their house, played games with her and helped her with her homework. Joshua spent a lot of time with Trinity. To my surprise, Trinity didn't talk much about her mother. Seeing that it was the parent she lived with and shared the same gender, I thought she would talk more about herself. T...... middle of paper......every time they went there. After hearing his story, I feel like I really have a lot to be grateful for. I would most definitely say that childhood has changed to the opposite extreme. For these two young girls who grew up in a very similar environment, life was totally different. Trinity would never have to drop out of school to help her mother raise her. Even when it came to her father, he remained there to be a part of her life, unlike Linda's father, it was never spoken about. Trinity has transportation to take her wherever she wants to go. She does it though; must lock her doors when she is not at home as well as when she is at home. Trust is no longer as strong in communities as it used to be. Trinity's main concern was fitting in with the children at school. Additionally, she had to deal with teasing that her parents weren't together. So I would say that the priorities have reversed since my mother was growing up. Parents are now the only ones who worry about things that need to be done. I agree that children should not be stressed by..