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My father grew up in Jersey City curing the reign of Frank Hague. From the way he describes it, these boys parents would have struck them dead if the police brought them home and told the parents what they were doing, without ever asking the boys for their side of the story. Ah, for the days when parents would encourage their children to behave instead of excusing their misbehavior.

[Rumplemeyer]

My Mothers Father, Jim Trainor, ran the Motor Pool for Hague, Oh the stories he told. It was not that you were afraid, you just where better than that, poor didn't matter, you where better than that.

[middie]

The Bobby Knight example of him being chastised for touching a player's chin to get his attention and the common comment that 'we don't touch these kids'---What absolute crappola!!! Adults have abdicated their collective responsibility to correct, admonish and, if necessary, take a kid in-hand and issue corrective action on the spot. But, that's consistent with our permission to eliminate young adults' responsibility and obligation to serve their country. We've changed our culture to one that is neither maternal nor paternal but rather one that is managed for and governed by juveniles in a new sort of youths' anarchy.

I gave up trying to coach little league football or baseball. If I chewed on a kid the next and inevitable event would be a parent's indignation and accusation of all manner of wrongful conduct.