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Trust me, there are still people having babies on communes and doing all neglectful stuff to their kids.
You just don't see those types of people living in UMC, tony suburbs of Montgomery County and posting on DCUM. That type of weirdness just doesn't exist here. Once you get outside the 6 figure, post secondary degree, professional set outside DC (and other major metro areas) you'll get a lot more of this stuff. Kids still play with BB guns, ride dirt bikes, go get in trouble all day long during summer breaks, etc.

The issue is that you no longer associate with those types of people.[/quote]

+1. I belonge to two separate online parenting forums (one for each kid). The upside is that you get to hear about what goes on in families' lives when they live nowhere nearby (often abroad); for example, one of the women on one board lives in Belgium. Her stories about preschool--where the teachers take the kids to the ocean for an overnight trip, made me feel simultaneously jealous (because that would never fly in FCPS) and annoyed with myself for immediately thinking it sounded too dangerous.  The downside is you read threads where a kid is obviously struggling in s bunch of areas and its apparent some major developmental milestones are missing. The mom is completely asleep at the wheel, no one has a job or health insurance and they're all hoping grandma's settlement check will arrive soon so they'll at least have some food in the house and be able to pay the rent.[/quote]

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