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Originally Posted by khalleron
And yet I didn't regard it as escapist when I was a kid - I grew up on a farm and my friends and I had both lots of responsibility and lots of freedom, just as Trixie and her friends did. It seems odd now, but that's because kids are held to be more immature than they were a generation or two ago.
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I think it depends on the family, the culture, and so forth. I can definitely come up with anecdata of less-supervised children now-a-days.
(And one of my parents nearly bled to death as a child because the children were allowed to run all over the farm. So it probably had good aspects and bad.
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