Perry, it was the same way in America — walking to and from school, playing unattended out on the street, stopping at the store to buy a roll after school, etc. — while I was growing up in the 60s and 70s in Philadelphia and Austin. What’s changed is the proportion of single parent families, which do a lousy job of civilizing their boys. Their is nothing more dangerous to society than a young man who has not been fully civilized. That takes the continuous presence of a firm father.
That’s why us old-fogies are against all this sort of ‘new age’ family stuff; the old way worked, deserves veneration, and the other forms do not rate time of day. Today, we reap what we sowed over the last 40 years. Lovely.
