Question

American families were often broken apart during the Great Depression of the 1930s. This most likely happened because parents had to

Answer 1

families were separated generally due to the inability to find work and thereby provide for their children. Parents were looking for work to send money home, and was a factor in separation of families during the great depression.

Answer 2

During the Great Depression, parents would often have to leave their families behind as they went looking for itinerant work.

Bring children along was often seen as an obstacle to being able to provide the most amount of money for the family at the lowest food and housing cost. So, children would often be left behind and money sent home.