Essay Topic

For my essay I am going to write it with these ideas:
Intro:
• Give a little info about what responsibilities teenagers have now days.
• Teenagers feel pressures in everyday life.
o Parents, school, friends, job, society, etc.
• The responsibilities of teenagers were more crucial to the status of the
family back in the mid 1900s.
Body:
• Early 1900s
o Pressures on teenagers from parents to help assist with the income of the
family for bills, food, housing, etc.
o Part if not all of what the children made with their jobs went to the family.
o Children were forced to get jobs to make their own income for things that
they wanted and to assist the family.
• In today’s society
o not as pressured to get jobs and help support their families
 In some situations they might be
 Pay for their own car, gas, spending money.
o Given more freedoms to do as they please.
 Some restrictions.
 Options for schooling.
 Options for jobs.
 Decide where they will work and what to do with the income they receive.
Conclusion:
• Wrap all of the main ideas showing the decrease in the responsibilities and
necessity or teenagers working to support their families from the early 1900s
up to present day.
• I will be using examples of all of the responsibilities and reasons why the
times have changed and the reasons behind why teenagers used to contribute
to their family’s wealth.
• I plan on using examples from The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager and
personal experience.