That's one of the things with which I'm growing more familiar. I grew up on military bases (and, more to the point, officers' quarters on military bases,) so I was insulated in a way that's quaint to those people I know who lived civilian childhoods. To me, the thought of not being able to play alone in a nearby park is ridiculous. My friends and I would walk three blocks from quarters to play and our folks thought nothing of it. If there were fights, there'd either be someone's parent who would start the chain of spankings until the kids got home or, if things got really dicey, the MPs would swoop down, break them up, pull the kids in and call their fathers to pick them up.
But, then, base life in the 1970s and 1980s was really, really small-townish in its way.
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Date: 2008-03-27 04:51 pm (UTC)But, then, base life in the 1970s and 1980s was really, really small-townish in its way.