Child neglect in Demy movies
Lola and other Demy mothers are crazy about their children, yet the poor kids are always left alone. Lola is the worst. Today, she could be prosecuted (in America) for putting that kid to bed during the day and leaving him alone in an apartment. But even in Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, mother and sisters trust strangers (men wearing go-go boots and plucked eyebrows) to pick up Boubou from school. Later, Boubou drinks a lot of Champagne. In Cherbourg, Genevieve leaves her child alone in a car, at night, in a gas station. It's all too much to be a coincidence.
Of course, I was a kid in France in the sixties too, and parents did let us do stuff that would be considered unsafe today (walking alone in dark streets, never wearing seat belts, having candy at night AFTER brushing teeth and so on...)