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Simple Solution to the Kids Future

posted 10 years ago by PretoriaDZ
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Both Arthur's parents and Janet's father had nice houses. Why couldn't they live with one of them until Arthur got out of college? He could work parttime and still get a degree. The parents would be far better off in the long run because if Arthur isn't a good earner, the parents are going to be shoring them up financially until the parents die.

This positively infantile preoccupation with bosoms!Terry-Thomas about US 1963.Hasnt changed much!

[–] soffee83 9 years ago

I didn't understand that either, unless things were just that much different back then regarding teen pregnancy. They all acted like they were totally outside the situation and helping them in any way wasn't even an option. They weren't all that old as far as grandparents go either.

[–] julisa 8 years ago

You're forgetting that in 1959 it was a case of "what would other folks say". It was a social stigma in those days. The parents may be fine with it, but the gossiping and possible social stigma could be damaging.

It was considered to be something that only "bad girls" did - not being able to control to whom they opened their legs.

[–] telegonus (736) 6 years ago

There was peer pressure everywhere in the U.S. back sixty years ago; and while we can laugh at it now it was no laughing matter at the time. It MADE some kids, helped them grow up, find the right people to be with, make good personal and career choices and the like; and yet it could be ruinous and "shaming" and make people,--children and teens especially--miserable.

In a way, teen sex and even, to a degree, adult sex were ways "out of" peer pressure so as to be oneself with another person and have fun; something one could "own" and at the same time share with someone else. Nowadays, THAT's peer pressured too, from other teens. I saw Blue Denim a long time ago, found it poignant, admittedly dated (for this Boomer teen), while now it's a real period piece.

I don't know what's going on today. Our society's changed to the point of having become unrecognizable, as compared to what it once was.

[–] Popcorngal (4779) 3 years ago

I agree,she could live with her aunt, Arthur could still go to college and visit the kid. The girl could attend college as well. If they want to marry, so be it.