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  1. (Giggle.) Well, there is plenty to do in the ‘burbs, but, teenagers are hormone driven. That is personal experience, not as a parent.
    I think the worst helicopter parents are the ones that that had the most youthful indiscretions.
    I’d hate to be a teenager these days. The 70’s were parents seemed a little more accepting and adolescent women could access women’s health services inexpensively on their own more privately than they can today. Even in Atlanta, there was real sex ed back then in schools. I grew up in the suburbs and you can bet some of the mommies of well to do families made sure there were NO “scandals.”
    A lot of mommies and daddies were getting divorced as well and starting to date again. There were the stories circulating of the parental suburban “swingers” floating around.
    Then, the Reagan years began…..

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