During the baby boom, the kids outnumbered the parents enough that nobody expected the kind of attention this writer is talking about. The economist and compute

During the baby boom, the kids outnumbered the parents enough that nobody expected the kind of attention this writer is talking about. The economist and computer scientist Herbert Simon born long before the boom, wrote of his own childhood that there was no Little League then: neighborhood baseball was for the kids and they didn't really want parents look over their shoulders. [Edit] I should add that I had attentive and affectionate parents.