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The Industrial Revolution
Children as young as six years old during the industrial revolution worked hard hours for little or no pay. Children sometimes worked up to 19 hours a day, with a one-hour total break. -
First “orphan train” heads West.
From 1854 through the early 1930s, approximately 200,000 orphaned or abandoned children from Eastern cities were transported by train to new families in other parts of the country. -
Hiroshima & Nagasaki Bombing
On August 6, 1945, during World War II an American bomber dropped the first deployed atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima. The explosion immediately killed 80,000 people; thousands more would later die of radiation exposure The impact this had on families is exponential, between children losing their entire families, and the the massive extermination of so many people. Plus children that remained in the area after the bombs experienced deformities due to radiation poisoning. -
Chinese Child Labor
Even though the minimum age for work in China is 16, many children are involved in child labor before that. In fact, some children work in hazardous fields, where they are vulnerable to injuries and other torments. -
Mexican Border Tent Cities
Twenty miles outside of El Paso, Texas, along the U.S.-Mexico border, sits the Tornillo Port of Entry, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility which was selected by the Trump administration to be the first site for temporary housing for the overflow of unaccompanied minors and the children of detained migrant parents. This tent city has separated hundreds of children from their parents, forced to live in what seems like a concentration camp.
