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>Is this era, where parents create an entire world for their children, unprecedented in history?

I’m not sure exactly what you mean here, but people born in rural areas in the early 1900s were extremely sheltered from an intellectual perspective.

With travel being so much more difficult and no TV, things as simple as seeing a picture of New York were mind-blowing.



I’m not sure exactly what you mean here, but people born in rural areas in the early 1900s were extremely sheltered from an intellectual perspective.

Right but that was not deliberate. People lived in rural areas and that’s where their kids grew up. They weren’t trying to engineer a rural lifestyle for their kids in order to produce some particular desired outcome.


Living a particular lifestyle and wanting to raise your kids there is a deliberate activity.


My grandparents were born in the early 1900s in a rural area. They grew up on those farms with double-digit siblings and everyone pitched in to help make preserves in order to get through the winter. Their lifestyle was born of necessity, not choice.

I doubt anyone but the upper class deliberately chose any particular lifestyle back then. Today I think a lot more people are getting in on this trend.




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