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difficult child Left Home....Temporarily (I think)
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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 435163" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Parents are raising good kids these days, too. And there were difficult children 50 years ago. But they were not talked about, they were hidden away or in jail. I could drive down the street I used to live in and point out the houses where difficult children lived. They were the houses I had to avoid on my walk home. I had my own routes home that helped me avoid the worst bullies, including the two girls whose father left them in the truck while he drank and gambled in the club. Those girls would attack me for any food I might be carrying. I learned to lug the groceries through the park rather than walk along the street with them. I finally made friends with these girls to try to get them to stop attacking me. That earned a friendly visit from the local cop, to tell my mother I was getting in with a bad crowd. Meanwhile I was a kid, trying to get these girls into church... and nobody stepped up to help me. Nobody called CPS. Those girls ended up in jail for breaking and entering - there was an abandoned house next to where the truck was always parked, the girls broke in to get out of the cold.</p><p></p><p>It's no better or worse now than it was 50 years ago. We just know more these days, and we do more.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 435163, member: 1991"] Parents are raising good kids these days, too. And there were difficult children 50 years ago. But they were not talked about, they were hidden away or in jail. I could drive down the street I used to live in and point out the houses where difficult children lived. They were the houses I had to avoid on my walk home. I had my own routes home that helped me avoid the worst bullies, including the two girls whose father left them in the truck while he drank and gambled in the club. Those girls would attack me for any food I might be carrying. I learned to lug the groceries through the park rather than walk along the street with them. I finally made friends with these girls to try to get them to stop attacking me. That earned a friendly visit from the local cop, to tell my mother I was getting in with a bad crowd. Meanwhile I was a kid, trying to get these girls into church... and nobody stepped up to help me. Nobody called CPS. Those girls ended up in jail for breaking and entering - there was an abandoned house next to where the truck was always parked, the girls broke in to get out of the cold. It's no better or worse now than it was 50 years ago. We just know more these days, and we do more. Marg [/QUOTE]
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