Critical Thinking 22-2 #3

How was what happened to men during the Great Depression different from what happened to Women and Children?

The depression had a far more different effect on men than the women and children. It was harder for men to adjust to unemployment because they were used to working and supporting their families. Normally, women and children would stay home and do household world and entertain themselves. This was something they were still doing throughout the depression, but couldn't afford a decent home and luxuries such as heat and electricity.
Men during the depression would also live out on the streets by themselves in the cities and look for jobs daily. Their mentality of it was that the family "had one less mouth to feed." Some of the older children, teenagers mostly, had the same idea in mind. Some of the men living on the streets, however, simply couldn't live without a job and abandoned their families. There were as many as 300 thousand homeless men during the depression "hitch hiking and sleeping under bridges." These homeless, work less men came to be known as "hoboes."