Post B1wtLus71MZ4s6o4xM by MSP_SMIMSA@noauthority.social
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 (DIR) Post #B1vlT5BY53Im5tqPE8 by neanderthalsnavel@noauthority.social
       2026-01-04T04:55:33Z
       
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       Millennials and Gen z keep asking on socials if middle school GenX were really free range as depicted in stranger things. In the 80s. Yes absolutely we were. Why? Because mom's didn't work. And there was a low key blanket surveillance by the moms.  Then offshoring and stagflation made the moms get jobs. By 1991 free range was over and organized sports and summer camps provided the oversight.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1vlen2RNNOPHtANpA by neanderthalsnavel@noauthority.social
       2026-01-04T04:57:41Z
       
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       This is the reason we have so much youth gun violence and general felonies. Black and now poor minorities don't have fathers in the home. Plus mothers are either working or not paying attn
       
 (DIR) Post #B1vmXJwfFGhez3T0im by sirphenom@noauthority.social
       2026-01-04T05:07:31Z
       
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       @neanderthalsnavel True dat!And we knew to be home for dinner on time too!
       
 (DIR) Post #B1vnjng0d9JcchButs by bquirky@noauthority.social
       2026-01-04T05:20:59Z
       
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       @neanderthalsnavel yeah it relley was like that.. and other mums would sometimes do some mu'min like 'hey don't do that or ill smack you too'like once we got the idea into our thick heads that it would be a good idea to hide behind bushes and throw rocks at cars..it was all fun and games until one of the cars was one of the kids relatives
       
 (DIR) Post #B1vnvdediaLl10CBfc by thedude33@noauthority.social
       2026-01-04T05:23:08Z
       
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       @neanderthalsnavel many moms did work. Look up latch key kids. I was one. Ultimate freedom. It was awesome.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1wliddKToduR1DRaK by neanderthalsnavel@noauthority.social
       2026-01-04T16:33:06Z
       
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       @thedude33 yeah. My neighbor was one. But at least in my neighborhood it wasn't growing until the end before collapse. He kept getting "dropped off" by the cops too. His mom worked FT which wasn't the norm yet in my solidly working class neighborhood at a call center.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1wmDFnZ9CabUObQ36 by slamy@noauthority.social
       2026-01-04T16:38:37Z
       
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       @neanderthalsnavel By the time us kids were in junior high (not middle school) all the moms on my street went back to work. They stayed home or worked part time when the kids were little.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1wtLus71MZ4s6o4xM by MSP_SMIMSA@noauthority.social
       2026-01-04T17:32:19Z
       
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       @slamy @neanderthalsnavel Latchkey kids were the GenX era.Both parents working and I am home by 3pm from school.This is when the 13 year old kid was considered old and mature enough to watch the younger kids.