13 were adults?
did they all have factory jobs and their own apartments?
“did they all have factory jobs and their own apartments?”
Jobs, yes. Living on your own has never been a measure of adulthood; living away from the parental home came with marriage.
“13 were adults?
did they all have factory jobs and their own apartments?”
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No, but many left school after 8th grade and went to work. My mother used to talk about her oldest brother, my uncle Roy, who was born in 1899 and when he was either 13 or 14, I’m not sure which, saved my grandfather’s life by using a pitchfork to drive an angry bull away before he could kill my grandfather. He then proceeded to raise a crop with mules while my grandfather spent the summer mostly in bed, recovering from being trampled by the bull. It was something similar to this song,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvfsfS6NVUc.
My own father finished 8th grade and went to work on his father’s farm and learned carpentry in his father’s residential construction business. As for myself I finished high school but I worked in the fields as soon as I was big enough to do anything at all which was around age 6 or so. By 13 I was expected to come home from school and go to work without having to have things pointed out to me. We had school bus drivers who were sixteen year old students and they did a fine job. I joined the Navy BEFORE finishing high school, the recruiter told me that if my father would sign the papers along with me before I turned 18 I could do 3 years active duty rather than 4. My birthday came just before graduation so they swore me in and sent me home on 2 weeks leave so I could graduate.
Yes, there definitely was a time when people were considered either children or young adults, there was none of this “adolescence” stuff going on and certainly none of the current shameless pandering to children that goes on now. You did not see people in their twenties, thirties and even forties expecting their parents to make life easy for them, you were expected to start earning your keep as soon as you could lift ten pounds unassisted. I am not exaggerating, I started carrying in firewood as soon as I could lift one stick at a time and carry it and anytime I complained my parents started telling me how I had it so much easier than they had had it and I know now that they were telling the truth, I did have it easier than they had.