More on Children in Recession

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/us/12families.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Recession%20and%20children&st=cse
In this article they were focusing on how in some families the children are being affected emotionally and psychologically by their parents not having jobs. Many of the parents never expected this to happen since it was a direct impact on the parents not having a job. They started noticing abnormal things that kids were doing around the house that seemed related to stress.
One daughter in a family focused in the article, the Bachmuths, was more prone to getting angry. Another daughter in the family started pulling out her hair over the summer. The parents didn’t know why, but thought it was because of the job issue. When the parents told their therapist about the incident, the therapist said that pulling the hair out was a stress induced disorder, and thinks it is related to the jobless situation. They also went into other families and the problems they are noticing with their children are happening more often.
Other parts of the article talked how kids in households that struggled with joblessness had struggles in school and more chances of dropping out due to emotional well-being.
Looking back at the great depression and how many people went jobless and the unemployment rate went up during that time, we can see how many similarities and differences of family problems of children and parents were there, between the recession and the depression. A big difference between the two time periods was the laws and rules for children. During the depression there weren't many labor laws on children. The parents would have their children go out and get a job to help support the family, or would have them do more around the house. Sometimes the children would leave the home and live on the streets. In schools and at home there was a higher tolerance on physical and mental punishment to discipline children. Today they have laws to protect children from labor and disciplined abuse that was used during the great depression. Making children today to rely on their parents for support and help and forcing parents tolerate more behaviors of children. Have we declined in helping our children or made things worse for the family and one's own self from the time of the great depression to now?
Looking to the psychology of behavior, psychology wasn’t considered an academic speciality for school until about 1879, before it was only considered apart of philosophy (http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/wundtjames.html). The discipline of psychology in the U.S. wasn’t credited until about 40 years before the start of the great depression. Within the discipline of psychology the first book written on the study of behavior called, Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It published by John B. Watson(http://library.thinkquest.org/C005870/history/index.php?id=timeline). Would it be true that we talk about this emotional and psychological issue in the newspaper confidently because we understand the issue more at this time? What can we come to learn from the depression about our knowledge of things and how it affects our focus towards knowledge and our own way of life?