True, and with the nations farm population down from over 90% to well under 5%, in one century we are seeing the passing of a whole different way of American life. The era of children growing up strong and self-sufficient is disappearing as most now grow up in little boxes on little lots with no open space in which to find themselves. Many 12 year old boys and girls from farms and small towns were more mature and certainly more responsible than many of todays urban based 20 year olds.
Children today have little opportunity to work with their Father in literally bringing home the bacon, and learn how to cook real food from their Mother and otherwise learn how to play their role in life. TV and government schools are their new Father and Mother role models, and politically correct organized activities provide the only "approved and sanitized risks" in their lives.
Urban based children (and some of their parents) have only the vaguest (and generally wrong) idea of what they and their children have missed. (Let the flames begin...)