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My mother did not work outside the home for the roughly ten-year span between my birth and my brother reaching school age. The communal setting, school apart, w
by cafard 3y ago
My mother did not work outside the home for the roughly ten-year span between my birth and my brother reaching school age. The communal setting, school apart, was called the neighborhood. This was the boom, so a given block could have quite a few kids on it.
- steve1977 3y agoSame here. Sometimes my mother would look after me and the neighbor kids, sometimes my neighbors mom would look after me and her kids and so on, for example.
- johnnyanmac 3y agoIt takes a village. But the village has lately eroded to "every family for themselves"
- steve1977 3y agoI guess I'm happy to be still living in a rural area, this is not the case here.