Bob Rudolph wrote in a message to Alan Rackmill:
 AR>  CH> If you like free love and don't want the responsibility for
 AR>  CH> your  actions, then I understand why you think those days
 AR>  CH> are "Not that  great".  However, free love, pre-marital sex
 AR>  CH> and "bastard" or  fatherless children do not make for a
 AR>  CH> healthy society.
 AR> The basic difference between "those days" and "today" is that today 
 AR> everyone admits that they know what is going on, while back then, 
 AR> everyone pretended to not know what was going on.
 BR>    There's another, more basic difference.  In those days,
 BR> respobsibility was  something well understood, and not
 BR> easily passed off to someone else.  These  days, 'notmy
 BR> problem' seems to be the answer to everything.  The
 BR> so-called  father bears a responsibility, too - but all too
 BR> many are having their fun and  walking.  Sex has become
 BR> exercise.  Not good.
The same "outlook" was prevalent back then also.
It just manifested itself slightly differently.
Now, if a guy gets a girl pregnant, he simply ignores her when she tries to 
get some support.
Back then, he would get a bunch of his friends to all say that they all slept 
with the girl in order to avoid responsibility.
One thing that hasn't changed much, tho, between then and now is the attitude 
society has toward the victim of rape.
The victim is first physically raped by the bad guy, and then when (if) she 
reports it, she is psychologically raped by the authorities.
And if the rapist is brought to trial, she is raped again.  This time by the 
defense team, in ublic, in the court rooms, and everything is then published 
in the papers for the whole world to see.
Is it any wonder that rape is a seriously under-reported crime? 
Alan
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