I’m only in my 50s, and I WALKED to school (or biked when there was no snow) every.single.day. even in kindergarten
When exactly did it happen that every child needed a government taxi-service to get to school?
Here in my county, the cut-off is 2 miles from the school...............
I’m with you. I started walking in pre school. My kids walked a single mile in the mornings with a neighborhood group of about eleven kids they loved it. We organized afternoon pick ups.limit government involvement as much as possible.
My mom had me walk home the first day of first grade, I turned the corner and had no earthly idea where I was. She had pinned a card with my name and address to my coat. A lady heard me crying and came out of her house and walked me home. Shocking how careless my mom was.
When we stopped having mothers at home during the day.
It would be fun for all the male scolds on this Forum to blame feminism; however, economic forces were at work. The last year this nation had a majority rural population was 1939, also around the time that technologies such as mass electric grids and telephone systems accelerated opportunities for men to leave the backbreaking farm work and get jobs in cities, where their wives could no longer do their traditional farm wife chores and cottage industries to help support the family; and the payscales for women working from home in cities did not equate to their former family farm work.
During that era, something like 90% of the majority white population were married. Along came WW2, where women were needed to work in factories, enjoying better pay for doing so. Although married women returned to the home in large numbers during the aftermath of WW2 between 1945 - 1955, steadily advancing technology lured more and more families to "allow" married women to work outside the home. Eisenhower built the interstate road system. More kids left home to work or go to college, more adults commuted longer distances. Many families acquired more than one motor vehicle. Families permitted marriageable teen girls to find jobs, because they could help pay for car insurance. Teen dating with a car (i.e. a portable bedroom) became a thing.
During the postwar years when all U.S. soldiers had been supplied with and taught to use condoms as a health precaution , pharmaceutical companies started developing artificial birth control. The widespread use of contraceptives including by unmarried people (a 1972 Supreme Court decision) began eroding traditional marriage, and for the next three decades after WW2, one Supreme Court decision after another destroyed legal protections for traditional marriage, enabling cohabitation, abortion, single adoption and “no-fault” divorce; and in its place legal hedonism, parental irresponsibility, and a profitable divorce industry overran JudeoChristian norms. Today fewer and fewer homes even contain a married mother and father with their own biological children—less than 50% of American children grow up with both their natural parents, and greatly fewer with a stay-at-home parent or homeschooling.
That's it in a nutshell.
You asked.