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Originally Posted by Yanks_Todd
I actually think that during the 40's and 50's the greatest generation did turn a blind eye to alot of things like this. I see where your heart is here and that is commendable (both my grandfathers were in WWII, one on D-day), but I do think there was a generational gap that plays into this.
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I'm a kid of the late 60's and 70's and while I do believe the WWII generation was the 'greatest generation' there were a lot of victims whose cries were ignored because people were brought up to mind their own business and that included government. In my own neighborhood growing up there was a family, poorer than most in the neighborhood, where you could hear the father screaming at his wife especially on summer nights because windows would be open and sometimes you'd see her with bruises or a black eye and nobody that I remember ever called the police nor did the police ever visit their home. Which is terrible.
Now we've gone too far, the government is too involved in families' personal business, I hear ridiculous stories of kids being taken out of their homes by Child Services because the kids go to school and say they were spanked at home - teachers and coaches are afraid to discipline kids at all because they don't want to be sued. Courts now label men as 'mentally abusive' if they raise their voices to their wives.