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Originally Posted by Ashartus
Maybe length of the school day is different? I remember coming home for lunch and having time to watch both Buckshot and the Brady Bunch, while my daughter has a 35 minute lunch break. An extra half hour a day of lunch break would add up pretty fast.
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The amount of time a child is allowed unsupervised on school grounds or at home is one that I feel has changed drastically.
When I was a kid, some kids stayed at home on their own from around the age of 7-8. We'd occasionally figure out who and it was common for kids to not tell the adults because we knew it would get kids and their families in trouble. I think it was frowned upon because kids aren't allowed home on their own until age 11 or 13 or under the supervision of a kid around 13?
I wonder if part of this is causing for the situation to become more uncommon, thus increasing stress, less parents willing to do it and paying for child care (which are fair, but not an amount to scoff at) that increases that stress. I think more and more families are also dual working parents now, which also means that opportunities for kids to follow friends home and then get picked up by parents at a later time (without the costs of child care) have also diminished drastically.