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MineralMan

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6. Actually, your experience sounds more like Mayberry.

Fri Dec 8, 2017, 05:35 PM

Dec 2017

I grew up in a small town, but not in a rural hamlet. I was born, like everyone I knew, to WWII veterans and others who went through the depression and were coming out of it. Where I lived, that was the pattern, and I've heard the same from others of my generation.

Nobody married at 14 where I lived. A couple of kids got married to each other at 16 or 17, when the girl got pregnant, but that was about it. There were no inter-generational marriages during my time in that town. None.

I suppose that did happen in some places, but it wasn't general. And by the time there were malls and things like that, this country was already pretty standardized on that.

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The Idea That Parents Didn't Care about Their 14-Year Old Daughters [View all] MineralMan Dec 2017 OP

Exactly! Which is why those men Phoenix61 Dec 2017 #1

Yes, exactly. MineralMan Dec 2017 #3

While I agree with you in most normal situations NewJeffCT Dec 2017 #2

True, which is the whole point of the "meet my parents" thing. MineralMan Dec 2017 #4

Sounds like Mayberry. sarah FAILIN Dec 2017 #5

Actually, your experience sounds more like Mayberry. MineralMan Dec 2017 #6

I grew up in the same generation as you. It was not common or desirable for 30 year old men Arkansas Granny Dec 2017 #7

I don't remember any instance of that, either. The same kids who started high MineralMan Dec 2017 #8

This sounds like the process my BIL goes through ProudLib72 Dec 2017 #9

But it did happen, and still happens. It can be woven into the fabric of a community, and the law WhiskeyGrinder Dec 2017 #10

I lived in a small town and your description is pretty much how it went in my house too. beveeheart Dec 2017 #11