was that normal back then for children to be left alone as much as the two boys were....on the beach their mothers are hardly looking at them, they wait outside the pub
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shareYes, it was... with much less in the press about child abduction, it wasn't so frowned on. Parents often left their kids with boarding schools, lone relatives etc and encouraged them to go on long walks etc by themselves as they got older. We actually don't know what it's doing to kids these days by not giving them that kind of freedom.
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During the war it wasn't too rare a sight to see children being whisked off into the rural areas to avoid the more "attractive" targets as deemed by the enemy military.
However, in this film's sense, I think the reason why they focused on it more was to highlight the parents' immaturity.
yes it was completely normal, people weren't as precious about their kids or a lot of other things back then.
shareRebkad is RIGHT. I was raised in the 50s and 60s and was alone a lot and trusted to be so. I felt safe. My grandchildrens' hands are held everywhere they go and they are having trouble growing up IMO. They are afraid of everything! Certainly, dangers to them are present in a country of 310 million and were to me in a country of 166 million, in the same proportions. However, now you hear about them more w/ both a bunch of underemployed journalists and a 24/7 news cycle. In addition, some of their mothers (my generation) raised these moms and dads to be scared of their shadows and so it goes. As to the minor dangers we encountered, we just got out of, using pluck and courage and then talked about it around the dinner table.
Rebkad's curiosity as to what kind of adults these born-in-the-2000s kids will become is shared by many.
In the film, the moms were somewhat immature and selfish. However, they lived in a close community and others would have looked out for the kids. Same when I grew up -- all the neighborhood's moms and dads watched out for all of us. We grew up in a special time. I am blathering on . . .
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You can still see them, I was up in Leeds in August 2013( =school holidays) 2 kids playing marbles in the side door of the betting shop waiting for the parent(s) to come out. They were there all afternoon. It's not facebook and Theme Parks for everyone.
shareI remember seeing babies in prams left alone outside shops in small towns in the UK as late at the late 1980s. I would not even leave my dog tethered outside a shop alone.
And then there is the Madeleine McCann tragedy.