I was born in 1948. I remember my mother washing out my mouth with soap for using a swear word and being punished with a switch across my backside and on the back of my hands for being late for dinner...today, that would be child abuse! There was a DDT truck that came around the neighborhood spewing out the white DDT fog and we would run in it and laugh. I’m still alive! I don’t ever remember locking the door to the house .. no need! Things are “uglier.” today. My grandchildren live a very different world than what I knew and it saddens me. I was told that I would need to get a permit for my son to have a treehouse ... how absurd I complained ... so, my kids did not have a treehouse because the Nanny State had arrived. I watched the younger generation tell their children not to walk on a ledge because it was dangerous ... I was considered dangerous for saying that children can’t learn without testing their boundaries. Yes, we had the fear of socialism/communism ... and today we live in socialism/communism.