Poverty children and families were poor barely ate food and moms and dads had to work also with the children did to survive. Family life was very terrible. When children did work they got pennies a day because they were so young that they couldn’t get paid as much as the adults. THE bosses were all right to them unless the children wouldn’t do what they say. Children were very young Working started at 6 and up. HALF of the kids that were going to school didn’t get more then 2 or 3 years of their childhood the rest were just them working. Their lifes living were bad. SOME children had to workfor their whole life because some parents were mental. …show more content…
You can tell by the hours that young kids were exhausted children had no playing time and they didn’t have that much time to rest as much as they wanted to when they took a break. THEN they got abused when they were not doing what they are suppose to do. LOW WAGES were paid to children, that made their families even poorer because back then they needed all that money they can get to survive. IT was bad for children that worked in coal mines back then children would work without shoes and their feet would get mess up and explosing were happening and in the coal mines it was dirty and dusting down their where the children were working