“YOUTH IN CRISIS” WWII ERA JUVENILE DELINQUENCY DOCUMENTARY FILM REFORM SCHOOL XD39124

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This 1943 black and white staged documentary film examines the issue of juvenile delinquency in the context of the World War II effort, framing a shortage of mentally fit draftees as an issue rooted in childhood (TRT 18:30).
Opening titles (0:08). An “Editor’s Note” thanks the film’s participants (0:21). “Youth in Crisis” (0:34). A queue of young men file down a staircase, following a sign with an arrow, “Selectees” (0:46). The selectees stand before medical examiners in their underwear, paper tags hung around their necks. Doctors examine them using stethoscopes, otoscopes, head mirrors (0:56). A young man approaches an adult in a cubicle wearing a suit and tie, who asks, “have you ever had any obsessions?” He responds with a history of suicidal ideation (1:18). Men waiting for their psychological exams. A newspaper clipping, “Mental Rejections High” (2:00). A meeting of military personnel, led by Lewis B. Hershey, Director of the U.S. Selective Service System (2:13). An office door, “The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, Dr. Lawson G. Lowrey, Editor.” Dr. Lowrey speaks on the subject of discharges for psychological neuroses (2:44). Teenage boys loitering. Young men sip from Coca-Cola bottles at a lunch counter with young women (3:28). Boys with helmets and toy rifles play “war.” A child pretends to die (3:39). A young boy listens to a radio broadcast dramatising gun violence. An air raid siren. A crying child is consoled (3:55). A National Guardsman on urban patrol. Two white police officers attempt to disperse a crowd of African American men from a street corner. Firefighters spray a flaming automobile with a fire hose. A headline: “State Troops Called In After 11 Die in Race Riots” (4:26). Teenage boys are unloaded from a paddywagon. Troops patrol a city street, carrying long rifles (4:44). An industrial factory clouded in smoke. A bustle of working people in various uniforms. A propeller-driven aircraft under construction. A woman factory worker assembles an engine. Women wear safety glasses while working at machines (4:56). A teenage girl arrives home to find a kitchen sink filled with dishes. A note reads: “I won’t be home after work till very late…” (5:21). Boys run through a park of mobile homes. Boys playing catch are narrowly missed by a passing automobile. A boy sets a piece of newspaper on fire as a girl looks on, smiling. Teenagers in an alleyway unbox a pair of marijuana joints (5:55). Adolescent boys at a newsstand magazine rack. A vendor wraps a bottom drawer item in a newspaper. Two boys review their contraband purchase with excitement (6:48). A woman with two children. A father and son argue at a family dinner table. Neon lights, sailors in “dixie cup” hats. Youths dancing, smoking, drinking in a cafe (7:10). Young women are “picked up” by passing sailors (8:13). A teenage girl arrives home late at night, calls her mother a “fuddy duddy” (8:56). Teenagers at a police station. “Municipal Building.” Elected officials discuss budget cuts (9:11). Magazines covering juvenile delinquency. Statistics show an 89% increase in “offenses against common decency” by girls under 21 (10:14). A doctor hands test results to a nurse, who makes an appointment with a young woman (10:45). Exterior “Federal Bureau of Investigation.” A woman in a feathered hat speaks (11:16). A residential street. A family plays with Tinkertoy Construction Set. A girl does dishes. A church (12:02). A police officer speaks with two boys. A sign: “Children’s Division of the Domestic Relations Court.” A young woman receives probation. A child guidance clinic (12:57). A “Day Nursery.” Youngsters organize a Victory Bond drive and discuss the war effort (14:08). An extracurricular model building class. An aircraft identification chart. Boys using machines. Exercising in a gym (15:06). A boxing match, a basketball game (16:18). A “dry nightclub” offers table tennis, soda (16:47). A rural 4-H club fair. Prize cows. Working in a victory garden (17:06). Marching troops. Delinquents. “The End” (17:52).
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[@niccoarcadia4179]

I was a latch key kid in the sixties. Actually no key kid since the front & side door was never locked. A broken home, Dad moved cross town. We three pre-teen kids would fight like wild animals. I'm surprised one of us didn't die. I almost did through being suffocated til unconscious during a particular nasty fight with my older sister. We called Mom's job almost daily bothering her with our fights, complaints, and troubles. I don't know how she did it but all three of us kids turned out fine. Mom worked her whole life and died of a heart attack at 59. Dad died penniless in a retirement trailer out of state. I now have two children in their 40,s who have good careers, nice homes, and families of their own. I often think of the incredibly hard working generation just before my generation. The parents worked liked robots to give their kids everything. But it didn't work out so well. The kids were spoiled and self centered. My generation by the late 60s was infested with drugs and alcohol. I saw MANY pals fall by the wayside. I still think of old school chums who OD'd and those who became alcoholics. That was Chicago in the late 50's and early 60's. Gangs and racism everywhere. Tough kids who went out on Saturday nights just to find fights. Sex predator's were there as well. Some tough kids would pick a fight with someone out of boredom. It was a screwed up place and I credit myself for making it outa there.

[@Osman-mj5rf]

Am one of the forgotten boys lowerlee school Liverpool UK let's just say I must had a angel watching over me, 6 grandbabys it's not littke house on the prirey but my love knows no bounds. We're still here.

[@ericmattinen4728]

The more things change, the more they stay the same. The names change, but the game never does.

[@grimtea1715]

"...Players change, but power, always finds a place to rest its head." -General Shepard

[@weskirkland5850]

The game changes an insane amount from then to 2023. an insane amount.

[@dariowiter3078]

​@weskirkland5850 That depends on the person who's being effected upon. 😐

[@sage4nowty129]

Precisely!

[@matthewscopelite5303]

My dad told me there was a green Dodge that used to troll around the neighborhoods in South Chicago that everyone dreaded because it issued KIA/WIA telegrams to households it stopped at. One day it stopped at my dads house by mistake, which he said was traumatic, as one of his older brothers was in the South Pacific and another was in Europe. They both survived the war,

[@immaggiethesenilegoldenret7918]

Thank God. So did my Dad and Uncle.

[@johnceglick8714]

My grandpa was the USAs 82nd Airborne Division , and fought from.tjr bloody hedgegrows of Normandy , Holland , and wounded in the Ardennes (Battle of The Bulge).

[@thechronicphilosopher6166]

God may there be a time machine in the next years to come as I want to travel back in time and learn how it was like to live in America during the war.

[@rapman5363]

I just love this narrator! He was in many films of the time. Perfect Inflection and tone for the subject matter.

[@fromthesidelines]

Westbrook Van Voohris narrated "THE MARCH OF TIME" in motion pictures- and on radio- for years.

[@user-oc6dh2yp2w]

I find his manner of narrtating very annoing and pretentious. It's not natural.

[@allandavis8201]

An excellent expose of American youth and their issues, I was thinking that all the “issues” that modern generations have and are facing was a new phenomenon, but obviously I was wrong, but it does come as shock. I don’t remember having any of the issues depicted here, I think that I must have had a great childhood. I never thought I would say this but I agree with Mr Hoover, discipline starts and finishes with the parents, all to often parents are unable or unwilling to accept that they are responsible for youths becoming delinquent (lovely old fashioned word that is perfect in this instance), part of why children or youths back in the 40s and through the decades until the present become embroiled in trouble is because the high and mighty self appointed do-gooders prevent parents from disciplining THEIR OWN children, and if that involves mild chastisement then that’s a decision for parents to make, not some social worker without any children of their own but with a degree that makes them experts. P.S it wasn’t and isn’t just an American issue, it’s almost world wide.

[@tomservo5007]

" and if that involves mild chastisement .." by saying 'mild' , you are limiting the parent's choice in castiesment , that's what social workers do.

[@allandavis8201]

@@tomservo5007 I was referring to the parents using mild physical chastisement, a slap on the hand, bottom or back of the leg, I honestly believe that parents have the right and duty to ensure kids grow up with a great understanding of the difference between right and wrong, what is dangerous and safe, respect and disrespect, and the whole range of what is acceptable behaviour, but I also believe that parents need to understand the limits of their actions just as they should be showing their children.

[@acgillespie]

@@allandavis8201 .Oh yes like back when common sense and critical thinking skills were still a thing? good old days are long gone.

[@allandavis8201]

@@acgillespie, I couldn’t agree more, common sense does seem to be a thing of the past.

[@wtxrailfan]

Every older generation wrings its hands over the current "youth in crisis."

[@ltcajh]

Yeah, and it's justified.

[@arrow1414]

@@ltcajh And every time they are wrong.

[@feathermerchant]

@@arrow1414 I'm an old fart of 74 and offer my insight on this issue. You're _right_ that *"...they are wrong."* in the sense senior citizens frequently grouse about younger generations based on nothing more than misunderstanding differences in generational cultures. You're _wrong_ in that it is not *"...every time..."* . Wars and other widespread disasters stress societies in ways that inevitably place youth (and other groups) in crisis. That does, in fact, occur every time, it's just not always acknowledged.

[@arrow1414]

@@feathermerchant And I think every time the youth surprises the older folk. Like regardless of opinion as to how the government handled it, right after 9/11 there was a surge of enlistments to fight for our country, something a post Vietnam cynic about that generation probably would've thought would never happen. Yes emergencies stress societies, that the older folk think the youth of the time don't care like they did when they were young, I think the youth comes through every time. And it holds true for peaceful causes to. Today kids have a renewed mission regarding civil rights. I am just looking at the historical track record to firm my opinion and I see a pattern.

[@feathermerchant]

@@arrow1414 I do take exception to your broad brush of the older generation because, it like the rest of society, falls along a continuum. “Every time” is a barrier to clear thinking along with “always” and “never”. Well, we can probably both agree that people, across nations and time, pretty much remain…people. They behave in predictable fashion, both admirable and despicable. The “greatest generation” was no different; it’s just that they are now mythologized. A rush to enlist is certainly one of the more reliable behaviors upon a national emergency. Almost as expected as the inevitable pronouncements that conflict “will be over by Christmas”.

[@loare-ainmusic6836]

you have to keep this in perspective. all the fathers, or father figures, were off to war during this time. So, pretty much grandparents and momma were left to raise them. And, as the fathers and such were off to war, the mothers had to work in the factories. So, there wasnt much in way of guidance for the kids then. Much like many "broken" homes have high incidence of youth problems. Fix that, and it would fix those other issues. Even today.

[@buchan1965a]

@11:22: You just know J. Edgar was really thinking "I wonder how Clyde would look in that hat and dress?"

[@JCinerea]

Bahahahahaha! When I saw Hoover, I thought, "Hoover giving a lecture on morality...." 😅😅😅😅!

[@mikezylstra7514]

Thinking to himself "I hope I remembered to remove those earrings - can't check to see now..."

[@thechronicphilosopher6166]

As a 20 y/o young gen zer, Id wanna visit this era and associate with the youth back than. Also the instructions to teaching a child is not what I call Propaganda, but rather the Truth.

[@kabiam]

Smoking pot and looking at porn. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

[@CEOkiller]

Not much porn back then…

[@kabiam]

@@CEOkiller In reality it was just nudie picks, probably limited example of actual acts of porn. There were scientific periodicals the might have had pictures of nude tribes in Africa. I've seen old medical journals which show sexual acts that teens might have had a gok at. Kids are crafty when they want something.

[@mikezylstra7514]

@@CEOkiller The lingerie pages in a Montgomery Ward catalog was as good as it got.

[@bobbysands6923]

all legal now

[@garystar1592]

Excuse me, I had to go to the back of a creepy store with booths to get my porn, hoping not to get assaulted by some ex con. Then in the 1980's I was able to rent "adult" films (bootlegged) from a seedy Asian corner Grocery in Jamaica Queens. Today, these kids are lucky, they get porn on their phone, get to look at girls who dress like porn stars with 6 inch heels (thanks to the hip hop pimping culture), and swipe till the next availably human within a few miles willing to have mop and bucket, monkey sex now. Back in the day, we had to go to the bar and actually talk to them. And don't get me going about the black forest issue (if you are over 50 you get it). Anyway thanks to Mayor Adams, I am about to enjoy a Reefer

[@kenmcdougal97]

Bring back shop class in junior high and high school

[@acgillespie]

Oh God.. then they might expect jobs as well..

[@dwightpowell6673]

Is there no more shop classes? My black shop teacher Mr. Greene hated me...he treated the white boys very good though.

[@randysmith5435]

Watching Hoover give morality advice is so hilarious!

[@thechronicphilosopher6166]

It was good though, some of the propaganda is so unique. It really changed the way kids and people thought back then. It's ain't good to believe what others tell you too but back then people didn't question those documentaries. That makes me wonder if that's how people gained their moralizes, was through this propaganda. Or was morality different from how it is today?

[@randysmith5435]

@@thechronicphilosopher6166 Sorry this is so late. We have access today to so much raw data. The common person is not able to keep up good filters as to what is real and what isn't. For those who had no access to knowledge due to economic or intellectual circumstances the Internet is a powderkeg waiting to be lit by someone without the critical thinking skills to figure out who the grifters are from the simple morons. When and if we get through our growing pains with information access there will be others finding the internet right behind us and the cycle will continue. I had a high-school teacher once tell me(You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.) Some people are better off in the dark instead of rioting for conmen.

[@lightmarker3146]

I have an older woman's magazine from Hoovers first year. He tells ladies Beware the coffee socials, communist housewives could be there. He was right ..

[@mine2394]

I was surprised 😮 to see him in this film 🎞️

[@antonbeloborodov5130]

Why it is hilarious ? For some reason americans hate him.

[@bhall4996]

How many times I wish I had the courage to finally blurt out to my mom.." You big ol fuddy duddy"

[@toddsmith1617]

😂

[@piatpotatopeon8305]

Lol, and these "troubled youth" were the parents of all the baby boomers.

[@beau1112]

Besides the ones whose parent died in the war.

[@garystar1592]

No wonder I am in thearapy

[@MissDiagnosed2024]

Generation X knows.

[@NA-me6sh]

That 2.5% THC must have been incredible

[@immaggiethesenilegoldenret7918]

While listening to “Harry the Hipster..”

[@garystar1592]

you drove straight off a cliff tanked from your booze

[@Daledavispratt]

"Victory girls"...now that's a new one on me.

[@arrow1414]

Oh mother don't be an old fuddy-duddy!

[@Daledavispratt]

@@arrow1414 I'm 60 years old and I use my actual name on here, "Arrow". Something to be said for maturity, not just in years but in mindset. I'm also not afraid to admit that I didn't know something.

[@arrow1414]

@@Daledavispratt I was joking, making reference to what a girl said to her mother who didn't like her staying out late.

[@Daledavispratt]

@@arrow1414 Ah...I'd have put that in quotes. If I would have retorted to my father that I was now a man because I made as much as he did, and in that tone, I'd have received a reaction that probably couldn't have been shown on KZbin, but I'm a better person for it today, I'm pretty sure. Thanks for clarifying.

[@MissDiagnosed2024]

Most of those ww2 were likely mentally unfit because they grew up in the depression era where their parents were lucky to feed them. My Grandfather joined the war, was a paratrooper, survived, came back and was a firefighter. The women were tough as nails and gave their children (the Boomer) everything they wanted or needed.

[@royce45678]

Love these videos

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[@ajking1260]

Sounds like today's standard but today's standard moral doesn't exist

[@yourdriver4093]

THAT VOICE!! That voice is burned into my brain..I love it!!

[@travisthechimp7857]

Seems reasonable that the military would reject sending psychologically unstable young men off to fight a war that everyone returned from having been forever psychologically damaged.

[@n1663r]

"military industrial complex"

[@hugbug4408]

Look at the Vietnam Vets! Some of the ones I knew have terrible PSTDs!

[@SFTaYZa]

By that logic would they not return even more twisted

[@jaminova_1969]

@@gan9e My experience working with the military is that "transsexuals" serving is a non-issue. Except of course, among the ignorant few who feel the need to freak out about it. And no, I don't think it is fair to discriminate like the previous president, a man who dodged the draft. At least the LGBT Americans who are serving and have served volunteered. Bone-spurs doesn't seem to have kept him off the golf course.

[@jaminova_1969]

@@hugbug4408 My dad may have died due to complications from Agent Orange. He still had nightmares and flashbacks some 30 years later. I knew more than a few Vietnam Veterans who couldn't re-adjust to life at home as well as some Iraq War veterans.

[@JohnDoe-jn3es]

GOOD GOD IF THEY KNEW OUR YOUTH OF 2021 ...

[@CEOkiller]

Hell with youth… they look at society in general they would think the Nazis won…

[@jaminova_1969]

@@CEOkiller Not the NAZI's, they were to orderly. More like the Communists.

[@weskirkland5850]

2023 is worse.

[@fromthesidelines]

Originally released in November 1943. Narrated by Westbrook Van Voohris.

[@brose2323]

Back then enlisted people being underweight was a major issue.

[@CEOkiller]

Because of the depression

[@garyrunnalls7714]

Lol ol J Edgar Hoover was a pillar of the community, hahahaha

[@colderwar]

He had Clyde Tolsons pillar inside him :)))

[@agethauno6592]

Hahaha when he wasn't eating pizza at comet

[@dave.of.the.forrest]

"the yutes of today, I tell ya..." - said all parents in all eras.

[@Mitia_k]

Great documentary

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[@BRYDN_NATHAN]

Thank ypu appreciate it.

[@LovexxMuzik]

Watching for a course in my degree plan. Very informative, thank you for the upload!

[@alphonsocarioti512]

Those little kids went to Korea and practiced what they learned in their youth. We taught them well with the right toys.

[@johnq.public4252]

"When do I get my friggin gun!!"

[@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647]

Interesting, but there's a lot missing here, most could be embellished though the majority of dads went to war and leaving a lot of homes with no income and making it hard for the wife/mom to take on the role of both parents and to get out and work also, I heard from a history teacher most dads were exempt from fighting and who knows how many real single-parent homes were there, to begin with. all the data isn't all gathered, and just how many youths were already with family members also just like now.

[@allandavis8201]

Unfortunately when war, especially world war, occurs then a lot of younger men have to and want to fight for their country, but that doesn’t leave families without an income, military pay rates in every country differ enormously, but I believe that during WWII United States service personnel had some of, if not all, the highest rates in the world, that was a decent wage that they could allot as much or as little to their family and retain what they needed to live on whilst away from home, and in some cases that allotment could have been higher than they had when dad wasn’t in the military, obviously if the “father” didn’t allot enough money or none at all that would leave families with no option but for the mother to find work, and whilst finding a job would have been reasonably easy it did mean children became a secondary consideration, many being left to their own devices, and that could, did and still does mean they were free to do whatever they wanted, especially if mother was working at night or during school holidays, and that was and still is a major reason for kids becoming ‘delinquent’ or as they like to say today ‘troubled’ or ‘stressed out’ and many other labels the psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and other “do-gooders” apply to children that don’t mean anything, what the kids depicted here and in real life needed and need is a sense of purpose, guidance, guidelines and discipline, and they could not and still don’t get that when a family is divided by war or dad just being away from home more than they are at home, just ask my kids, they would agree 100% that until they were adults and they were free to behave as they wished they wanted all the things I have mentioned, and more, whilst I was away with the military, and that was a lot, but they were lucky, my wife was able to fill some of the void left by me.

[@johnceglick8714]

@@allandavis8201 I bet this led to drug abuse amongst adolescents , and teens that wasn't talked about . But there are anti-drug films going back to late 40s , and early 50s . So , if there was delinquency , there must of been junkies too; heroin use for sure, abuse of alcohol , and amphetamines , barbiturates too. My father told me that shooting up dope was called tracking. Heroin use was brought on by a man named Arnold Rothstein , father of the American mob.

[@StonesAndSand]

2021: I'd bet hard-earned money that the US would have a 95%+ rejection rate, should we ever reinstate the draft.

[@arrow1414]

Every generation thinks the young people aren't up to the task, and every time, they prove them wrong. We view the past with hagographic, rose colored glasses.

[@johnacord5664]

I was one of McNamara's MORONS. Today's military is getting back to the best and the brightest.

[@mh53j]

@@johnacord5664 guess that explains the emphasis on maternity flight suits, drag queen shows at Nellis AFB and drill instructors not being allowed to stress out recruits too much; goodness knows they won't have to deal with making life or death decisions under pressure.When officers and NCOs have to worry about facing possibly career ending discipline because they said something or gave orders that offended or hurt the feelings of some fragile subordinate.... don't think that's progress. Hopefully these "woke" individuals will stay in the REMF ranks.

[@maxmulsanne7054]

I can't say than I'm impressed or have much confidence of the current and upcoming generations to function accordingly in the job they signed up for. Army Lt., Nathan Freihofer is a good example of what's wrong with a generation that is obsessed with (TikTok) vanity and openly defiant to proper military conduct. If his glamour-puss mentality is common for the current generation enlisting in the service, then we will be in trouble with the next major military conflict.

[@arrow1414]

@@maxmulsanne7054 Well once again I have to say this is likely generation stuff, the older generation not understanding the adolescents of today. I am sure the older generation were having the same doubts about the jutterbugging, Lindy Hopping, swing jazz crazed youth of the 1930s not being up to the task that no one knew that was just a couple of years ahead of them in the early 40s.

[@StonesAndSand]

Looks like a page out of today's news....

[@lawrencemiller3829]

This video did not discuss criminal gangs, mass shootings, murder, and mass media which fosters bad behavior. It did discuss home life, which is part of the problem today, and what today is considered normal drug abuse, and what was probably considered soft porn today.

[@funkydozer]

"Listen here young man, do you have any mental illnesses and all that?" "Well see, I used to enjoy cutting people into small pieces and burying each piece in a different place just so their everlasting souls could never rest." "Do you ever feel like doing that naaaaooooooow?"

[@mikezylstra7514]

Just say "YES: you goober.

[@cjc0102]

Put those kids to work in the factories. Problem solved.

[@CEOkiller]

Send those kids to Omaha Beach…

[@markdraper3469]

6:50 "...this kind of cheap pornography." As if the expensive kind is gonna beat the Axis. I understand how the announcer's style was typical for the time and would be the norm until TV was well established after the War. But I found myself wishing the film were over more than being interested in participating in their solutions.

[@dwightpowell6673]

@Dapper Canuck so what... fanatical Caucasian.

[@mayena]

4:25-4:56 the major ethno-social urban riots was in Beaumont (Texas), Detroit (Michigan), Los Angeles (California), Mobile (Alabama), New York City (New York). This was most probably filmed and broadcasted in the first half of 1944?.

[@coolworx]

Thank heaven for Victory Girls!

[@EdKazO-Vision]

Narrator is a recent graduate of the FDR school of voice overs.

[@hurricanesteve65]

That lady with that hat talking with j edgar, looks ridiculous.

[@bobstuckrath1805]

And you people said this old attitude was wrong. Seems pretty accurate to me.

[@jackuzi8252]

I wonder whether the announcer at the beginning had to be trained to drone on that way, or it was a natural talent?

[@Attofoxy]

Let's lay the blame 100% at the feet of the parents, shall we? It's interesting how much better understood the social, economic, mental and environmental causes of delinquency are, though there is still a tendency to blame it all on the parents.

[@harrychestwigg]

i've seen this short somewhere before on some video comp.don't know the name

[@TheManLab7]

Scotland still uses the word delinquent to describe chavs by calling them NEDS (Non Educated Delinquent's). I've actually got a dvd called NEDS n it's about teenagers in secondary school.

[@user-oc6dh2yp2w]

These societal problems have led to a religious (especially evangelical) revival. Therefore in the 50's Americans were more suppressed and well-bahaved. This, in turn, led to the backlash in the form of sexual revolution of the 60's. Then the backlash to the backlash in the form of Jerry Falwell's "Moral Majority" in the 80's.

[@johnzeszut3170]

Yes, it is teenage angst.

[@BR-bj3ot]

How refreshing to see the young people at end, spending their time in productive ways. Rather than staring at a cell phone and surfing the internet through which Satan has destroyed so many.

[@EmilyTienne]

Dickie: Wuhh Gee sis, another Spam sandwich?!

[@lsmmoore1]

About the soldier "Victory Girl prost1tution" thing - oh no. Oh no no no. That sounds to me like soldiers sometimes pressured young teenage girls into havingsex with them, which is a form of sexualassault. Girls during WWII in the US were brought up to be willing to volunteer as best they could for "our boys" overseas. So it would be SO easy for an adult male soldier on furlough to exploit that, corner a girl, insinuate that if she doesn't attend to his "needs" she is failing to contribute to the war effort, and then get sexualaction because the girl was made to feel like she couldn't say no if she wanted to be seen as a good war volunteer (which basically every girl raised in WWII America was). Those poor girls. It sounds like they were effectively arrested for being the victims of sexualassault.

[@noahdayton3349]

Yeah women’s suffrage was a decade or 2 later, so it’s not absurd to think this happened quite frequently. Should young men be forced into going to war and dying for a country they were born into?

[@manhoot]

I can say for certain I don't have any sort of neurosis.

[@mariekatherine5238]

And when Dad is deployed and Mom works in a munitions plant, exactly how was one to have the happy nuclear family?

[@weskirkland5850]

That was BEFORE the nuclear age... the people you talk about literally created it after wars end.

[@arrow1414]

13:29 It takes a village...

[@mintybadger6905]

I love how the delinquents are wearing suits. Dang, crime and moral laxity used to be so classy.

[@painful-Jay]

Does anyone know what the last line under rape says at 11:10 ? The watermark is covering it. Bur something?

[@petesmitt]

Burglary..

[@painful-Jay]

@@petesmitt ahh, thanks Pete

[@orlettacaldwell]

But I thought everything back then was so pure and nice. 🙄

[@larrybliss8330]

So we have J. Edgar Hoover telling us we must have stable homes while the war economy is forcing parents to leave the home. Hmmm...

[@jackuzi8252]

Never argue with parenting advice from J. Edgar Hoover!

[@zion-jabezrobello7853]

If the only knew how kids this generation would be

[@EmilyTienne]

Why didn’t they just build more jails? Pack ‘em full! It’s what we do in 2021, and with great success.

[@OldProVidios]

Door Key kids. Dorky Kids. You learn where the word Dork comes from. An insult by the 1950s. So they changed the phrase to latch key kids.

[@kristidrehnig4313]

Well, technically the word dork is Yiddish.

[@philipinchina]

Do you have an address or phone number for any of those girls?

[@poetcomic1]

As Judge Judy says "Teenagers LIE!"

[@yomomz3921]

So, uh, for everyone musing on about how "the more things change, the more they stay the same", and how older generations have always fretted and/or complained about younger generations (in what I can only conclude is some attempt to avoid the unpleasantness of self-reflection)... for all those folks, I'm just gonna leave this 3mins right here. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iqXdmp2klp2gnbM

[@rohnkd4hct260]

Put a lot of blame on the parents. I was a "latch key child."

[@ashdallis6701]

01/14/2022

[@hbailey1180]

BUT,dad I like uncle AL and he likes me!

[@walterkersting6238]

Youth?

[@arrow1414]

J.Edgar Hoover was for the Defunding of the police in a way. 11:16

[@SFTaYZa]

To be replaced with his own personal police.

[@philipinchina]

Was that Joe Biden whom I saw playing ping pong?

[@cmoudyrybicka]

If they could imagine what we have to deal with in these days (Antifa, BLM, LGBT and so ooooon) they would be happy what they had.

[@JasonOwensYT]

You mean like the race riots the movie talked about earlier where some angry Klan guys killed 11 people. There was an Antifa back then it was called the Klan. Same difference.

[@purplepimple2610]

This country is going to hell. Oh nevermind

[@urbanimage]

A positively socialist outlook being portrayed here - just goes to show how the US might have developed differently.

[@MrButtonpresser]

I almost got snow blindness watching this…so much whiteness.

[@tr5947]

I guess nobody else caught the bit about them talking about the psychological stats for white men and no one else, as if no one else mattered. At that time, I guess they didn't. And all I could think of during this whole film was MST3000.

[@kristidrehnig4313]

I caught that, right off. One of the first things that struck me was that, and that the fact that they quoted that statistic likely bc there was a differential, based more on the answers that they are going to get from interview questions posed to potential servicemen. I am guessing somewhat here, but am curious a slightly higher percent of wealthier males of service age might have it in their minds to "lean into" answering psychological questions in a way that might tend to exclude them from duty. Not many, but maybe enough to affect the numbers. And in the early 40s, especially, there would be a higher overlap with caucasians.

[@johnceglick8714]

Alot of crime was heroin driven, for real!

[@sage4nowty129]

This movie. What a bunch of propaganda and balony!! Amazing that some men fell for this!!