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Stevie’s mom was negligent


Where was the mom when the older brother was beating up Stevie at night? Didn’t she ever set any ground rules for her children? Who lets their 13 year old kid wander around like that ?

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Most parents from that time and earlier.

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Completely false, but sure, run with it.

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I do remember my parents letting me run around at that age. And yeah, we were just as irresponsible as the kids in this movie.

I'm surprised I survived it... lol.

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13 is 8th grade. I knew of no 8th graders who were allowed to run around unsupervised at night. Some may have snuck out, but the norm was not little kids out and about after dark.

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Sure, we weren't allowed to be out all night. But it was a different time and place in history. I had a curfew which was around midnight. Small towns are a little different though...

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i guess your friends didn't grow up in Single parent homes were mom worked nights. this was me & my buddies. we would also lie and say we were staying the night at the others house & run the Streets dodging cops & finding someone to buy us Booze/40's

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Early 90s we sure did. That was 2 parent homes as well. I can't say for 1997 as I was an adult by then, but I lived in a pretty safe neighbourhood and at 13 I was allowed out at night.

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