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[quote=Anonymous]When I was growing up, more people knew their neighbors, especially the ones with kids.  The kids knew which houses they could go to.  So, if, say, your mother went shopping and wasn't home when you got back from school, you could drop in on one of the neighbors and hang out until your mom came home.  Or, houses that you could go and play at if your mom needed to go and run an errand. 
 Nowadays, the number of neighborhoods where the neighbors know each other and support each others kids are fewer and further between (despite the one poster above who says she has a village of neighbors).  I remember on days like with unexpected early pickup (I remember one day we went to school and during the day, a pipe froze and burst and they shut off water to the school, so we had to be sent home early), that some of the moms would call around and talk to each other and one mom would go and pick up like 5 kids from school and bring them home.  The parents would call the school, we'd get an announcement to come to the office and we'd hang there until someone came to pick us up.

In addition to more people having remote extended family and no local family, this type of "village" support is gone, too.
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