[Smokin' Joe]

How much of the casual attitude toward children in the 1960’s and 1970’s was due to the fact that families could afford to have broken arms set and cuts stitched up.

It is more expensive, relatively speaking. But if your kid falls down and breaks their arm, you'd better pray you have witnesses or the Social Serpents will try to have you arrested for abuse and your children 'placed'.

[Vigilanteman]

True story. My Dad was a veterinarian and was most unimpressed with the job they did setting my kid brother's broken arm from a slide accident.

The following fall, I broke my wrist in a brutal game of dodge ball and, true to his word, Dad set it himself. The principal even called him a few weeks later because, according to her, I was threatening to hit certain kids (who deserved it) over the head with the cast.

Dad had a talk with me, asked me to tone it down and, to his surprise, found that everything had healed early. So the cast came off and I was back to throwing harder than ever for my baseball team.

We still chuckled about that almost until the day Dad died.

[Travis T. OJustice]

. But if your kid falls down and breaks their arm, you'd better pray you have witnesses or the Social Serpents will try to have you arrested for abuse and your children 'placed'

Yep. Liberals wreck everything. But that's only for good families with working parents. If you're a crappy kid-beating parent, and on welfare, they'll keep the kid with you right through the autopsy. DCF totally sucks. It's universal. What do you expect from idiots who spent a quarter million bucks on a masters in social work for a $40,000 a year job?