What Is Life Like In The Late 1800s
In today’s world children go through everyday problems, and they struggle and have a hard time understanding or dealing with things. Life back in the Victorian Times was completely different then the problems and or good times we have in today’s world. The Victorian Times were from the years 1830-1900. Poor children were put to work in public environments, for them and their families survive. As for the wealthy, they were just spoiled and bored.
Therefore, life as a wealthy Victorian Child was much better than how the poor were treated, they were well taken care of and spoiled but it was also sad how they were raised. Parents did not pay much attention to their children, that was what their nannies were for. Growing up, their nannies would …show more content…
They worked for hours, fourteen to eighteen hours every day. Expected to work in filthy conditions sometimes, and as far as safety, it wasn’t a very big concern. Parents made them work, the children didn’t have a say so about it. The type of work they’d be sent to do was known as cheap labor, mining, factory work, street sweepers, making clothes and hats, servants and prostitution. When the year 1833 came, a new act had passed, “Factory Act” which didn’t allow children under the age of nine to work in factories. Kids ages five to nine would come out of the chimney’s covered in soot from head to toe. Blood along their bodies as well. Death was not very rare for these kids either, the small spaces they’d have to go in, under and around the machines sometimes even while the machines were still on and running.
You have heard about the wealthy children's lives, and the poor, even their working conditions, but they also had “Victorian Street Kids.” Usually in alleys and side streets is where these kids ended up living. Some being orphans, but most were neglected coming from alcoholic families, where they were being abused. It was either living on the streets, or being abused daily, so some would end up picking the street. Now, to support themselves some went into prostitution, others became street sellers or worked in factories just like the other
Therefore, life as a wealthy Victorian Child was much better than how the poor were treated, they were well taken care of and spoiled but it was also sad how they were raised. Parents did not pay much attention to their children, that was what their nannies were for. Growing up, their nannies would …show more content…
They worked for hours, fourteen to eighteen hours every day. Expected to work in filthy conditions sometimes, and as far as safety, it wasn’t a very big concern. Parents made them work, the children didn’t have a say so about it. The type of work they’d be sent to do was known as cheap labor, mining, factory work, street sweepers, making clothes and hats, servants and prostitution. When the year 1833 came, a new act had passed, “Factory Act” which didn’t allow children under the age of nine to work in factories. Kids ages five to nine would come out of the chimney’s covered in soot from head to toe. Blood along their bodies as well. Death was not very rare for these kids either, the small spaces they’d have to go in, under and around the machines sometimes even while the machines were still on and running.
You have heard about the wealthy children's lives, and the poor, even their working conditions, but they also had “Victorian Street Kids.” Usually in alleys and side streets is where these kids ended up living. Some being orphans, but most were neglected coming from alcoholic families, where they were being abused. It was either living on the streets, or being abused daily, so some would end up picking the street. Now, to support themselves some went into prostitution, others became street sellers or worked in factories just like the other