Were people more mature in the past?

[Redheaded Stranger]

I hear this discussion quite a bit. For example, people on the plains 150 years ago married in their teens. They had lots of work well before age 18. They started families in their teens.

Fast forward 75 years later and people were still marrying early, working, and starting families in their teens. As kids, they dated in their teens.

And what about dating? At what age should a child begin to date? When should they go out on their own? At what age should a parent chaperone a date? What about group dates? What is the maturity level? Biology hasn’t changed all that much in the grand scheme of things, but how much have norms and culture changed?

Thoughts?

 

[excalibur]

Yes. Thinks of what happened to [mostly] young girls babysitting, which is now basically dead.

Don’t Tell America the Babysitter’s Dead

For decades, sitting was both a job and a rite of passage. Now it feels more like a symbol of a bygone American era.

www.theatlantic.com

 

[1srelluc]

 

[Concerned American]

I hear this discussion quite a bit. For example, people on the plains 150 years ago married in their teens. They had lots of work well before age 18. They started families in their teens.

Fast forward 75 years later and people were still marrying early, working, and starting families in their teens. As kids, they dated in their teens.

And what about dating? At what age should a child begin to date? When should they go out on their own? At what age should a parent chaperone a date? What about group dates? What is the maturity level? Biology hasn’t changed all that much in the grand scheme of things, but how much have norms and culture changed?

Thoughts?

Seventy-five years ago, marriage -- between a man and a woman, was the norm. Now marriage seems less the norm and even when it is entered into, it is not necessarily between a man and a woman, indeed, there is a greater portion of the populace that seems confused as to what a man or a woman are today.

 

[Concerned American]

Yes. Thinks of what happened to [mostly] young girls babysitting, which is now basically dead.

Don’t Tell America the Babysitter’s Dead

For decades, sitting was both a job and a rite of passage. Now it feels more like a symbol of a bygone American era.

www.theatlantic.com

LOL, there are so many things that used to be normal in society. Personal pride. Personal responsibility. Common sense. Ambition. Children were encouraged to do things productive that would bring them income--baby sitting, mowing lawn, delivering papers. Now people feel that they are due private living quarters regardless of their ability afford them vs. room mates. Neighborhoods that needed childcare would support one neighborhood family member that would care for the neighborhood kids. Now "It takes a village" by democrat standards, means the government will raise your kids to their immoral standards.

 

[Donald H]

Seventy-five years ago, marriage -- between a man and a woman, was the norm. Now marriage seems less the norm and even when it is entered into, it is not necessarily between a man and a woman, indeed, there is a greater portion of the populace that seems confused as to what a man or a woman are today.

Instead of marrying, gays lived together in sin!!

 

[Donald H]

LOL, there are so many things that used to be normal in society. Personal pride. Personal responsibility. Common sense. Ambition.

They're all still part of life in Canada my friend.

 

[Concerned American]

Instead of marrying, gays lived together in sin!!

Gay is sin, duck. Keep running your mouth about things that you have no knowledge of. Your ignorance is entertaining.

 

[candycorn]

I hear this discussion quite a bit. For example, people on the plains 150 years ago married in their teens. They had lots of work well before age 18. They started families in their teens.

Fast forward 75 years later and people were still marrying early, working, and starting families in their teens. As kids, they dated in their teens.

And what about dating? At what age should a child begin to date? When should they go out on their own? At what age should a parent chaperone a date? What about group dates? What is the maturity level? Biology hasn’t changed all that much in the grand scheme of things, but how much have norms and culture changed?

Thoughts?

Mature isn’t the word I would use. They were definitely more honest with themselves and each other.

 

[surada]

Yes. Thinks of what happened to [mostly] young girls babysitting, which is now basically dead.

Don’t Tell America the Babysitter’s Dead

For decades, sitting was both a job and a rite of passage. Now it feels more like a symbol of a bygone American era.

www.theatlantic.com

Babysitting pays $20 an hour now.

 

[Leo123]

I hear this discussion quite a bit. For example, people on the plains 150 years ago married in their teens. They had lots of work well before age 18. They started families in their teens.

Fast forward 75 years later and people were still marrying early, working, and starting families in their teens. As kids, they dated in their teens.

And what about dating? At what age should a child begin to date? When should they go out on their own? At what age should a parent chaperone a date? What about group dates? What is the maturity level? Biology hasn’t changed all that much in the grand scheme of things, but how much have norms and culture changed?

Thoughts?

Life was miserable back then compared to today. In America, settlers in the West would stake out a piece of land and would gain most of their sustenance from the land. They worked sun up to sun down every day and had to work very hard at an early age. This, I believe, made them more mature at a younger age. During WWII couples had to separate while the men went off to war and the women joined assembly lines in support of the war effort. Soldiers, especially, have talked about growing up fast on the field of battle.

IMO, circumstances really depict how fast a person reaches maturity.

 

[Blaster]

I hear this discussion quite a bit. For example, people on the plains 150 years ago married in their teens. They had lots of work well before age 18. They started families in their teens.

Fast forward 75 years later and people were still marrying early, working, and starting families in their teens. As kids, they dated in their teens.

And what about dating? At what age should a child begin to date? When should they go out on their own? At what age should a parent chaperone a date? What about group dates? What is the maturity level? Biology hasn’t changed all that much in the grand scheme of things, but how much have norms and culture changed?

Thoughts?

My dad said the work ethic in his generation was superior to today's younger folks.

 

[shockedcanadian]

I hear this discussion quite a bit. For example, people on the plains 150 years ago married in their teens. They had lots of work well before age 18. They started families in their teens.

Fast forward 75 years later and people were still marrying early, working, and starting families in their teens. As kids, they dated in their teens.

And what about dating? At what age should a child begin to date? When should they go out on their own? At what age should a parent chaperone a date? What about group dates? What is the maturity level? Biology hasn’t changed all that much in the grand scheme of things, but how much have norms and culture changed?

Thoughts?

In general, yes, because they needed to be. 100 Years ago if you were a kid you would be woken up by your dad without notice as soon as the weather was perfect for the crops. If you didn't do so, you didn't eat.

Now, any one can go buy a bag of chips and an energy drink at the corner store.

 

[Concerned American]

Babysitting pays $20 an hour now.

By government mandate--thanks for making the point.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Hell, no, people, as MAGA proves, are relentlessly stupid.

 

[Resnic]

Absolutely they were.

People were more mature just 20 years because they didn't have parents hiding and coddling them and telling schools to make things easier on them. They didn't spend all their time behind a phone screen, they had to actually go out in the world and face it. They didn't cry about having to work 40 hours a week. Kids constantly went out every day and did shit that would be considered dangerous and life threatening now. They had parents that still had values and standards handed to them by their strong parents. If you wanted to get ahead in life you had to work for it and so on.

Kids today on the whole are sad, pathetic, weak willed, soft pussy ass bitches that care more about their phones than anything else. They are cowards about everything in life and all act like victims.

They are the weakest generation this country has ever seen. Not all of them, but most of them are.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

The weakest are those children of MAGA parents.

 

[Leo123]

Absolutely they were.

People were more mature just 20 years because they didn't have parents hiding and coddling them and telling schools to make things easier on them. They didn't spend all their time behind a phone screen, they had to actually go out in the world and face it. They didn't cry about having to work 40 hours a week. Kids constantly went out every day and did shit that would be considered dangerous and life threatening now. They had parents that still had values and standards handed to them by their strong parents. If you wanted to get ahead in life you had to work for it and so on.

Kids today on the whole are sad, pathetic, weak willed, soft pussy ass bitches that care more about their phones than anything else. They are cowards about everything in life and all act like victims.

They are the weakest generation this country has ever seen. Not all of them, but most of them are.

Yes! God! We rode or bicycles with NO HELMET!!! When we got our DLs we drove with no SEATBELTS!! We drank water STRAIGHT OUT OF THE HOSE! We played baseball IN THE STREET!! And that, dear friends is just the 'tip of the iceberg' of all the UNSAFE shit we used to do.

 

[whitehall]

A college education 200 years ago included Greek and Latin studies. Today's college grads can't even name the Founding Fathers.

 

[Moonglow]

I hear this discussion quite a bit. For example, people on the plains 150 years ago married in their teens. They had lots of work well before age 18. They started families in their teens.

Fast forward 75 years later and people were still marrying early, working, and starting families in their teens. As kids, they dated in their teens.

And what about dating? At what age should a child begin to date? When should they go out on their own? At what age should a parent chaperone a date? What about group dates? What is the maturity level? Biology hasn’t changed all that much in the grand scheme of things, but how much have norms and culture changed?

Thoughts?

You are aware that in many states the age of consent was ten years old?

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