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A “snapshot” feature in USA Today listed the five greatest concerns parents and teachers had about children in the ‘50s: talking out of turn, chewing gum in class, doing homework, stepping out of line, cleaning their rooms. Then it listed the five top concerns of parents today: drug addiction, teenage pregnancy, suicide and homicide, gang violence, anorexia and bulimia. We can also add AIDS, poverty, and homelessness. . . . Between my own childhood and the advent of my motherhood—one short generation—the culture had gone completely mad. - Mary Kay Blakely
Attribution: Mary Kay Blakely (20th century), U.S. journalist, essayist, author and mother. American Mom, prologue (1994).

Categories: Author And Mother, Essayist, Families In Transition, Journalist, Special Concerns Of Modern Families

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