My Mom and I were talking this morning about one of my older aunts who is so embarassed that one of her Grandkids got in trouble and everyone found out about it....until she didn't want to go to the family reunion.
I think there was a time when people just kept family secrets...a family secret. 15 year old girls were sent away to have babies and those babies were put up for adoption. Parents kept 'police problems' with their sons quiet. Couples kept their aurguments to themselves. People didn't talk about their dirty landry.....so to speak.
We now discuss it openly and it doesn't seem of a tabu as it once did. The big embarassment isn't there. So....maybe it's all the same....we just accept it and don't cover it up. Kids don't care as much because society doesn't make such a big deal out of it.
Just a thought.
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