Has childhood changed? The aim of this assignment is to examine whether childhood has changed over the last 40-50 years. For the assignment I interviewed a 9-year-old African American female and a 54-year-old African American female. During my interview I discovered that childhood has changed enormously. Morals and values ​​have been diluted due to priorities. In contrast, stress has increased dramatically due to the increasing number of children growing up in single-parent homes. In this article I covered these key areas: family history, school, friends, and extracurricular activities. When I asked the 9-year-old (Trinity) to tell me about her family, she started with, "I have a dad, a mom, and a grandma. Then I asked her if she lived with all those people? Trinity said, "well, no. , I live with my mother and grandmother, but my father comes to visit me every week and sometimes to school during the week". We continued the conversation in that direction and I asked her to tell me about her school. Trinity loved school even if she came teased a lot because she didn't have a “complete” family. Her school was a large school in a city where diversity was not a problem. The classes were also well distributed with students of all genders group of friends she liked. She didn't really try to fit in with many other children because she said everyone made fun of her. She sometimes worried about the things people said about her and her father (Joshua Especially considering). who absolutely loved his father. Once she even beat up a girl at school and that very day her father had come to lunch with her. She said she told him the girl was teasing her. She said her father told her to tell someone what was happening next time and not to try to handle it on her own. “Good girls don't fight, T (that's what her father called her)” was what she remembered him telling her. Then it started to trickle back into his family a little bit. She said she always enjoyed time spent with her father. She especially liked it when he came to their house and played with her and helped her with her homework. Joshua spent a lot of time with Trinity. To my surprise Trinity didn't talk much about her mother. Seeing that this was the parent she lived with and shared the same sex with, I thought he would talk more about her. T... half the paper... never that they went. After hearing his story I feel like I really have a lot to be grateful for. I would definitely say that childhood has changed to the opposite extreme. For these two young women growing up in a very similar environment, life was totally different. Trinity should never have dropped out of school to help her mother raise her. Even the problem with her father, he remained part of her life, unlike Linda's father, it was never talked about. Trinity has transportation to take her wherever she wants to go. He does it anyway; he must lock the doors both when he is not at home and when he is at home. Trust in communities is not as strong as it once was. Trinity's main concern was fitting children into school. Additionally, she had to deal with teasing that her parents were not together. So I would say the priorities have been reversed since my mother was growing up. Parents are now the only ones worrying about things that need to be done. I agree that kids shouldn't be stressed about household matters, but they should still worry about doing well in school so mom and dad don't have to struggle to take care of them.