This Cannot Be True

[guido911]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2085163/Children-dumped-streets-Greek-parents-afford-them.html

[heironymouspasparagus]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2085163/Children-dumped-streets-Greek-parents-afford-them.html

You must be younger than I thought.  It happened here a lot in the '30s, and before.  It even happens now from time to time.  And Dicken's England.  We have been SO lucky since WWII, we now have whole generations who cannot conceive of that kind of reality.

[DolfanBob]

Meh. Somebody contact Madonna, Angelina and Oprah. Problem solved.

[AquaMan]

You must be younger than I thought.  It happened here a lot in the '30s, and before.  It even happens now from time to time.  And Dicken's England.  We have been SO lucky since WWII, we now have whole generations who cannot conceive of that kind of reality.

Hansel and Gretel were based on that reality.

Still, it can't really be that widespread a practice. They'd probably drop off the grand parents first.

[Conan71]

Hansel and Gretel were based on that reality.

And Home Alone as well. 

[heironymouspasparagus]

Best viewed together. 

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/depression/photoessay.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1HT27qPsSE