"During the baby boom, there was a lot of intermittent surveillance. Fewer mothers worked, and every ten or fifteen minutes one might give a look out the back w

"During the baby boom, there was a lot of intermittent surveillance. Fewer mothers worked, and every ten or fifteen minutes one might give a look out the back window to see what was going on." @cafard sort of applies to suburban areas. In semi-rural hilly country on bikes and foot, there is no houses for miles. My folks and others wouldn't have been able to see me or my friends, though we'd tell them where we'd been.