Another thread to the “disconnected youth” story
Friday, October 30th, 2009Here’s a contribution from New Times Times columnist Judith Warner:
October 29, 2009, 9:05 pm
Perils of the Recession Generation
In October 1932, The New York Times ran a special section on the crisis of America’s Depression-era youth. It was headlined, “A Tragic Aftermath of the Days of Prosperity: The Army of Homeless Boys Now Roaming the Country.”
The following year, the historian Steven Mintz notes in “Huck’s Raft: A History of American Childhood,” the film “Wild Boys of the Road” grimly dramatized the plight of the quarter of a million kids who by the early 1930s were “bumming” around the country.
