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

• BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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    • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Once I was at my friend’s house, and her parents were gone for like three days. We were 9, and it was totally normal for kids that young to just stay alone. One day this man who had been tutoring her in math at some learning center called, which was weird because he had no reason to call as school had just let out and she was done for the summer, and he had never called her before. Well, he had called because he wanted to force her to talk dirty to him while he pulled his horn. She was a rare person with two phone lines, so she called the police on the other line while I made up things to say to him to keep him on the line and record what he said. I was pretty funny in what I came up with to say, pretty snarky. The police arrested him on this basis. When her parents came back and she told them, they were angry at her for making trouble for the teacher and involving them in a court case.

      That’s what 80s parents were like.

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