Re: The unprintable family history

In article <RgqyYfNvNqXEFwTn@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Brian Pears
<bpears@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
Eve McLaughlin <eve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
you are a man, and with adult children - you wouldn't understand how
vulnerable lone females and children are these days.

They are in no more danger "these days" than they were in
any previous era.

I think the greater danger exists, because of the lack of street
policing, the wider accessibility of drugs and drink, and also the lack
of moral rules laid down for the young. Fine, we rebelled in the past,
but we knew what we were rebelling against. Too many young persons
have gone feral these days.

It isn't the danger that has increased
it's just that paranoia has reached outlandish proportions
in this as in so many areas of our lives. There's the
daily food scare, the nonsense over GM crops, mobile
phones, mobile phone masts, vaccinations, bird flu etc
etc etc. Kids are getting fat and lazy because parents
won't let them out to play - though I'm pleased to see
that some parents are now seeing sense. Kids are dying
from long-beaten illnesses because parents refused to
have them vaccinated after some ***-head doctor said it
caused autism. Playground equipment we knew and loved is
being removed because kids might hurt themselves on it -
even horse chestnut trees have been chopped down in case
kids hurt themselves climbing for conkers. Where has
common sense gone?

True, true -the PC brigade have gone over the top. But there is plenty
of trouble around and no one should add to it ot force it on others out
of vanity.


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Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society
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