Or maybe we just didn’t have the internet and social media to IMMEDIATELY let us know what is happening where.
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Right. In fact, I would go one further, even before the was social media, many community officials did not go running to the traditional media either, to air their laundry. They avoided it. So while violent crimes, rape, abduction, and all these things happened and you knew about them in your own community, you weren’t hearing about them happening across in another town, let alone in some other State. Not everywhere, but I think in a lot of places there used to be a propensity to keep bad news under wraps back in the day.
Agree completely.
We know schools STILL do this and in a big way.
Also maybe fear of reporting back then.
I know my mother’s father would have been on the 6pm news for the way he treated the kids.
Mean as hell Mafioso.
But that’s going back to the ‘30s when it was much harder for a woman to take her kids and leave.
I’m surprised to hear that a number of women I know STILL think that they have no out.
The more times change, the more they remain the same in some ways.