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Re:German Kindergarten Campouts Test Helicopter Parents (2015) by marenkay on Sunday December 17, 2017 @12:05PM (#15946530)
"Still" might be the wrong word here. Helicopter parenting is more an issue for the post 2000 years and was never this extreme before.

Considering public transportation, good infrastructure to schools or kindergartens was not really available in the 1980s in many German cities.

E.g. my school was a 6km walk with no busses or trains going there and cars not being a thing affordable by the working class. Nobody batted an eye back then.

Today parents drive their kids to school for 1km. That's just wrong.

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Re:German Kindergarten Campouts Test Helicopter Parents (2015) by chefkoch on Sunday December 17, 2017 @02:55PM (#15947313)
> cars not being a thing affordable by the working class

Are you shure you're not talking about the 50s but the 80s?

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Re:German Kindergarten Campouts Test Helicopter Parents (2015) by walshemj on Sunday December 17, 2017 @03:01PM (#15947340)
Maybe they are refering to the east
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Re:German Kindergarten Campouts Test Helicopter Parents (2015) by eru on Sunday December 17, 2017 @11:12PM (#15949359)
In the East it wasn't about affordability in price, but about rationing. You had to wait 18 years for a new car at the end.
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Re:German Kindergarten Campouts Test Helicopter Parents (2015) by marenkay on Monday December 18, 2017 @05:12AM (#15950636)
No, I am referring to the 80s. There were a lot of families without cars there. Probably depends on where you lived but where I lived (500k inhabitants in the city) cars were only for the wealthier.
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