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Originally Posted by Cowperson
In all honesty, I would think it would be more likely in the 1950's that an individual like this would exist without comment or help than it would be in today's society.
Cowperson
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I don't believe that. As per my previous post, (sorry I didn't read everything before replying,) in the 50s, your entire neighbourhood knew who you were and what you were doing and cared enough to rat you out when you needed to be ratted on.
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Originally Posted by fotze
Why do people think that parents were on the whole better back then? What facts support that claim. TV isn't the only thing that allows a parent to be neglectful, its just another thing. From my limited scope of experience my parents parents were definately much worse parents than my own. Fathers dad was a coal miner which is a horrible job, beat his son and forced him into hockey to "save the family" pretty much meaning he would escape at his first opportunity which he did and barely spoke to him the rest of his life.
My mom went to catholic school and that is where the child abuse comes in. Bitter evil nuns beating and hitting the kids with sticks. Imagine if that happened today? If a teacher/supervisor ever hit my kid, they'd be eating with their arsehole. Talking to your parents back then about anything deeper than what will be for dinner seemed not very common as well.
Sure there is bad stuff today, but it certainly wasn't rosie. I would take todays world over that in a second.
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Again, same thing. It was a time where children were raised by committee... the entire neighbourhood looked out for you. Certainly, there were bad parents then as there are today. (Although I would suggest it's going the opposite way... that worst parents today are the ones who let their kids run rampant whereas in the 50s it was ripe with child abuse.) But some of that was at least offset by the fact that there were others around who would help you. As a child, you could go next door for help, whereas today, the neighbours are likely strangers. But again, that's just my opinion.