During the 19th century was Sweden industrialized, much because of the great amounts of natural resources as, for example, copper, iron and wood. At this time Sweden needed labour to get the industries going. From 1800 to 1850 the population in Sweden increased with about a million people. This enlargement of the population implied that there were no longer places to work and many people were starving. Many farmers immigrated to America.

1900-1912 suffered Sweden by unstable economics.

1914-1920 was good years for Sweden because of the First World War. Sweden exported a lot of weapons and food.

1935 was an economic developing time for Sweden. The economy became more stable and this affected Sweden positively.

1950-70 The state became more involved in the economics and therefore it developed even more.

1990-93 suffered Sweden once again of an economic depression. The GNP values were extremely low.

Today it is about 20,000,000,000.

At the beginning of the 20^th century to the late 30’s, after the first and second world war, our society still was pretty undeveloped. There were big families living in only one room with no more than one bed. A large piece of the population still lived on farms in the country. Children and youth didn’t have so many hobbies on their spare time, often the children in a family played with each other. Most of the families didn’t have any money to buy any toys for, so the youngsters had to have a big and living fantasy. Otherwise they had to do the things their parents told them to; often even help to work or help out at home. Most women, grownup, worked at home, raising their children, cooking, cleaning and so on. Discipline was the keyword, all young people had to do what ever a grownup told them to. Under the mid-century Sweden got a pretty strong economy, even internationally strong. The hygiene got better, and the houses and apartments grew bigger. As the economical welfare got greater, the relationships between family members got better. Children and youth’s got more to say and a bigger affect on society, more freedom. Still, there were no after-school recreation centres so the families spend much time together. The conditions at school got better, the teachers aloud a more independent way of teaching, not a total controlled way with 100% discipline. In the 60’s and the 70’s the controlled raising of children decreased even more. The hippies and other independence-movements took form and suddenly everything was aloud; sex (even in public!) drugs and more. Flower power ruled the raising of children. However, the community opened after-school recovering centres, and the parent got less time with their children. The education, in school, was as "free" as the rest of the society. Still, of course, there were children living in peace, outside the flower-power wave. But, the school in the 60’s and 70’s was more like a meeting place were youth’s could educate themselves. The discipline was no hard at all. In the 80’s, on the other hand, school got better. And so did the Swedish economy. The technical development grew in a frightening rate. Television and videogames took a bigger place at home, and the time children and parents had together decreased even more. The 90’s were a continuation of the 80’s. The information technology became a conception, most used by the young generations. The television and the computer got a more eminent part, both at home, in school and society. The only time families spend together was in the morning, the evenings and sometimes at weekends.