How times have changed

[someoneyouknow]

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Today, you let your kid walk down the block alone and you're considered a bad parent and possibly have charges leveled against you.

 

[about_average]

Indeed. Some stories my dad told me about farming as a kid in Oklahoma in the 20's are pretty amazing.
One of the least being the day his teacher took him home at lunch to get her washing machine started and the hand crank smacked him in the forehead. She put a piece of tape on the dent and took him back to school.

He was offered a full agricultural college scholarship. but instead joined the Navy in 1937 because he couldn't wait to get off the farm.

 

[Boxlicker101]

You don't have to go back to the 19th Century. In 1944, when I was four years, I started Kindergarten and walked to and from school by myself. I thought nothing of it and neither did anybody else. We had school buses, but they were for kids who lived in the surrounding farms.

 

[Hard_Rom]

And whose 'fault' is it? Ours! We handhold our kids and grandkids. We insist that all nanny precautions be taken before they leave the house. Not them. Not our ancestors.

Or blame it on safety product manufacturer advertisements, liability lawyers and pandering politicians.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

In the new today is the fire alarm for how American boys must get their transgender meds from India because American parents and MDs are insensitive to its millions of faggettes.

 

[phrodeau]

I blame the pro-life lobby.

 

[phrodeau]

Does anybody here want to see two kids at those ages riding horses on the roads in their neighborhoods? Is there any insurance company that would cover their liability? Do you think that they would responsibly care for the horses on their trip?

 

[Rachel_X]

I was about that age the first time I was given a gun.
What's more dangerous, a horse or a gun?
Serious question.

 

[phrodeau]

I was about that age the first time I was given a gun.
What's more dangerous, a horse or a gun?
Serious question.

The kid is more dangerous to the horse than the gun. That's too young for the responsibility.

 

[about_average]

Does anybody here want to see two kids at those ages riding horses on the roads in their neighborhoods? Is there any insurance company that would cover their liability? Do you think that they would responsibly care for the horses on their trip?

Roads are a bit different today than in 1910. I wouldn't like to see kids doing the same trip today.
As for caring for their horses, absolutely they could. In 1910 kids were riding at a very early age. Kids who are around horses from birth know how to care for them, especially when the family's livelihood depends on them. More often than not they were responsible for their care at an early age.

 

[Hypoxia]

Yes, USA is a different country now. Back then, except for trains, a horseback pace was the fastest possible -- a couple MPH rather than 75 on our highways. USA had 2/3 fewer people and no suburban sprawl. But no safety standards or rules existed. In 1900, among railroad employees in USA -- all of'em, clerks too, not just line workers -- 1% died and 9% suffered amputations. (Source: Bettmann Archives)

Think on that. Work the rails 11 years and you're guaranteed to loose a limb. That's lots worse than NFL concussions.

And while these two kids rode cross-country without being molested, zillions of other kids slaved in fields and factories and workyards, were used as sex toys or running targets, or just died young from bad sanitation, nutrition, infirmity, whatever. Youth mortality rates were horrendous. In cities, ethnic youth gangs ran rampant.

Ah, the cities. Horses on Manhattan in 1900 emitted one million tons of shit per day, with a commensurate quantity of piss, right onto city streets -- which were lined with piles of droppings. Manhattan's Central Park was a hog farm. America's Rome was a shitty place.

Sure, let's return to a time when up to 5% of adult women were prostitutes.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Yes, USA is a different country now. Back then, except for trains, a horseback pace was the fastest possible -- a couple MPH rather than 75 on our highways. USA had 2/3 fewer people and no suburban sprawl. But no safety standards or rules existed. In 1900, among railroad employees in USA -- all of'em, clerks too, not just line workers -- 1% died and 9% suffered amputations. (Source: Bettmann Archives)

Think on that. Work the rails 11 years and you're guaranteed to loose a limb. That's lots worse than NFL concussions.

And while these two kids rode cross-country without being molested, zillions of other kids slaved in fields and factories and workyards, were used as sex toys or running targets, or just died young from bad sanitation, nutrition, infirmity, whatever. Youth mortality rates were horrendous. In cities, ethnic youth gangs ran rampant.

Ah, the cities. Horses on Manhattan in 1900 emitted one million tons of shit per day, with a commensurate quantity of piss, right onto city streets -- which were lined with piles of droppings. Manhattan's Central Park was a hog farm. America's Rome was a shitty place.

Sure, let's return to a time when up to 5% of adult women were prostitutes.

In the Civil War one of my ancestors lost both legs at Chickamauga. They sent him home to South Alabama where he healed then walked 600 miles to Richmond Virginia in time to surrender. After the war he married and farmed and had 10 kids. He finally got a pension in 1920 and died the same year.

Many orphans were placed at brothels where they were raised and trained and worked from an early age. Sex abuse didn't exist before 1925, and marriage to young girls was legal most places. Plenty hooker girls got married, and the grooms were sometimes good catches. My 34 year old MD ancestor married a 16 year old Irish orphan. They had 4 children, all of whom graduated college...including 2 girls.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

One of my ancestors (see photo) had 20 biracial kids by 2 black women, but I have a theory he adopted all of the kids, and they were the results of interracial sex, and rejected by their birth mothers (white).

I read somewhere biracial babies were placed with mammys by their white relatives.

In Colonial Days Irish girls made lotsa biracial babies the courts then gave to others as indentured servants. It occurred to me white Southern women were doing all the race mixing, not the men.

 

[Rachel_X]

Plenty of young people still have to do unsavoury things to survive.
Some of it scars us for life and a lot of it just gets drown out by everything that's going on.
I'm very glad I didn't have to marry some old perv that frequented brothels though.

 

[about_average]

Yes, USA is a different country now. Back then, except for trains, a horseback pace was the fastest possible -- a couple MPH rather than 75 on our highways. USA had 2/3 fewer people and no suburban sprawl. But no safety standards or rules existed. In 1900, among railroad employees in USA -- all of'em, clerks too, not just line workers -- 1% died and 9% suffered amputations. (Source: Bettmann Archives)

Think on that. Work the rails 11 years and you're guaranteed to loose a limb. That's lots worse than NFL concussions.

And while these two kids rode cross-country without being molested, zillions of other kids slaved in fields and factories and workyards, were used as sex toys or running targets, or just died young from bad sanitation, nutrition, infirmity, whatever. Youth mortality rates were horrendous. In cities, ethnic youth gangs ran rampant.

Ah, the cities. Horses on Manhattan in 1900 emitted one million tons of shit per day, with a commensurate quantity of piss, right onto city streets -- which were lined with piles of droppings. Manhattan's Central Park was a hog farm. America's Rome was a shitty place.

Sure, let's return to a time when up to 5% of adult women were prostitutes.

I'm not sure anyone in this thread was suggesting that everything was better in 1910.