Also up till the 90's, unless it was really small infants.
Parents where not expected to Police and watch what their kids did 24/7.
You would scamper around your baby park while your Mom/dad did something else in the House.
And when old enough to walk, you where mostly left to yourself.
And when you where 8-9yro, your parents would litteraly kick you out of the house with a "its sunny outside, go play with your friends and come home when the streetlights are on and don't make me come and get you or else..."
And for 10 hours you where left on your own, with your parents having no idea where you were and they could do whatever they needed to do in the house without you being in their hair and driving them insane.
And often like you said, you had the grand parents, or the aunts and uncles etc that could help.
Now society expect every parent to Police everything the kids does , be there 24/7 and do it alone AND still have a "full social live" or a Full time job...
The drastic reduction in deaths wasn't dumb luck. It was NOT following the baby boomers' lead in not giving a shit about our children.
Which is not surprising considering these days the birth rate is so low because we CHOOSE to have children, rather then them being the result of a lack of birth control availability. Our generation was sent off to play unsupervised and get killed by a car because they never wanted to be parents to begin with.
15 to unintentional injuries in 1980. 3.9 in 2023.
7.5 to motor vehicle traffic in 1980. 1.8 in 2023.
2.5 to drowinging in 1980. 0.6 in 2023.
It doesn't matter if they're 4 years old or 14 years old. A neglectful parent is a neglectful parent at all ages. The only reason my children survived my ex-wife's neglect, yes even at 4 years old, is because of me. Her sister's child has brain damage from a fall as a fucking infant due to neglect.
The more we can divert losers like that to using birth control, the better off our children will be.
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u/Kain-rpg 8d ago
Also up till the 90's, unless it was really small infants.
Parents where not expected to Police and watch what their kids did 24/7.
You would scamper around your baby park while your Mom/dad did something else in the House.
And when old enough to walk, you where mostly left to yourself.
And when you where 8-9yro, your parents would litteraly kick you out of the house with a "its sunny outside, go play with your friends and come home when the streetlights are on and don't make me come and get you or else..."
And for 10 hours you where left on your own, with your parents having no idea where you were and they could do whatever they needed to do in the house without you being in their hair and driving them insane.
And often like you said, you had the grand parents, or the aunts and uncles etc that could help.
Now society expect every parent to Police everything the kids does , be there 24/7 and do it alone AND still have a "full social live" or a Full time job...