Comment on The thing about the 80s is that all these people were under 18.

Mickey7@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We also were able to drive and own cars at 16, which isn’t a thing in Canada anymore, and if you pissed off your parents they would throw you out even if you were 15. Parenting was much more lax back then.

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  • SoftTeeth@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Also almost any job paid enough to make a living.

    Also parents wouldn’t have their kids taken away for letting them spend time alone in public

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    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      In which country? My first job was $3.35/hr in the mid '80s, and I can assure you there was no living to be made at that wage.

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      • boonhet@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Isn’t that like half the current US minimum wage while costs have increased several times?

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    • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Exactly it wasn’t so supervised and regulated. And honestly it’s better this way. The things that happened to us because of lax parenting were bad.

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  • Mickey7@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You are correct And parents of today treating their kids as babies causes them to never grow up and deal with life

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    • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t agree. Many young girls got molested because we were just left to our own devices outside for hours and hours.

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      • Mickey7@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        As horrible and disgusting as that is, I still believe that today many, not all, parents are over protective. I don’t have the stats but there certainly seem to be more perverts out there and parents should probably spend more time explaining this to their kids

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