Changes in Society and Childhood

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This paper explains that there is probably no change in society that doesn't have a significant and equal effect on children. It questions the nature of those effects and whether it is likely that similar changes will create different effects on childhood in different cultures.

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"No matter how one's parents got to the United States, if one is born here, one is a citizen. So it was with amazement that a 21-year-old Mexican-American college graduate, who had finished a paid internship at a newspaper, received a message from the U.S. State Department's Houston Passport Agency inquiring, in so many words, as to why it should issue her a U.S. passport so she could go and study in Mexico. They required the "attending midwife's report; prenatal and postnatal notes created by the midwife of (her) mother regarding her pregnancy and delivery; a certified copy of baptismal certificate; (her) parents' tax, rent, or employment records created at the time of (her) birth which indicated their U.S. residency; elementary-school records showing name, date, and place of birth and indicating (her) parents' address or any other document established in (her) infancy or early childhood that indicates (her) place of birth" (Quoted by De Uriarte, 1996, p. 18+). The student finally did get her passport, but the author noted that this young woman was one of several who found themselves lacking a passport at a crucial moment because of a crackdown on illegal aliens."

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