What is the difference between poor and rich children in the Victorian age?

Answer 1

If the children were members of the upper or middle classes, then they were trained from birth to be members of respectable society. They were given schooling appropriate to their position and were treated as adults. However, if the children were members of the lower class, they often were not educated or, if they were, they only went to school for small periods, often for less than a year or two, and from a young age were employed in order to help out their families, often in bleak professions such as chimney sweeping or rat catching. At the beginning of Queen Victoria's reign (1837) only a handfull of children went to school. They were treated like little adults, as soon as they could walk they were sent to work either with their parents or in factories. Many children died before they were five years old. By the time Queen Victoria died (1901), people realised that children needed protecting and educating.

Answer 2

Life was very difficult for poor Victorian children as they had to take menial jobs such as mining, farming and sweeping the streets in order to provide for their families. The coal mines exploited child laborers.

Answer 3

The poor lived in filthy conditions often without proper housing or hospital care and worked over 12 hours a day without days off including children. The rich rarely worked, had servants, and went on vacations.

Answer 4

At the beginning of Queen Victoria's reign (1837) only a handfull of children went to school. They were treated like little adults, as soon as they could walk they were sent to work either with their parents or in factories. Many children died before they were five years old. By the time Queen Victoria died (1901), people realised that children needed protecting and educating.

Answer 5

Answer

Money.

There was a very wide class divide in Victorian England, almost two different worlds, with different cultures, language forms, etc. This is less true today in developed nations, but still vey much the case in many developng countries. Almost unimaginable gulfs exist, for example, between impoverished Indian peasants and the wealthy elite in that nation. Victorian England was much the same, with the lower classes numerous, powerless, and sometimes starving, while the wealthy elite, or 'Society" as it was called

then, living lives of idle luxury.

Answer 6

rich had a lot of money than the poor

Answer 7

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