Little secret you weren’t taught: Parenting as a concept basically didn’t exist before the 1970s. The overwhelming job that we call “parenting” used to be a community effort.
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Little secret you weren’t taught: Parenting as a concept basically didn’t exist before the 1970s. The overwhelming job that we call “parenting” used to be a community effort.
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In 1913, 700 miles was practically across the country. That was further away than most adults traveled from their birth town in their lives.

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Not really. The transcontinental railroad had been around for over fifty years.

Cars were already pretty popular. There were already about 5 million of them out there.

Ocean liners and tourism was available.

The St. Louis Worlds Fair of 1904 got 20 million visitors.

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