From: Tony Williams 

Don Hills wrote:
> In article , "Gary Britt"
 wrote:
>> This from the UK's Daily Mail may explain Adam and Phil...  Just a thought.
>
>
> It doesn't explain anything about Phil and Adam. Life in the UK was very
> different when Adam and Phil were children.

Me too. I'm not sure I spent any more time with my parents than kids do
nowadays though, but it was different types of time. We sat at the same
table to eat and in the same room to watch TV, but I went to school on the
other side of the city, catching a bus through the city centre every day.
So I got to socialise with parents and learn to handle the big bad city on
my own.

I get the idea that a lot of time parents spend with kids now is driving
them to school and back, and when they get home the kids vanish into their
own rooms with their own TVs and computers. You see the quality vs.
quantity argument I'm making?

--
Tony

> For that matter, it was still
> different when Phil's children, at least, were young. (I seem to remember
> Adam mentioning children, but I can't remember if they were his or
> relations.)
>
> If you want something to relate it to, I imagine the same differences apply
> to life in the USA over the generations as well.
>

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