Times are so different now,as I didn't even have a boyfriend at 14/15. I can't even remember being interested. Neither can I imagine that either parent would have exactly made him welcome. Far from it,my father would have chased him.
Perhaps because we were lucky enough to have had a very long garden,we didn't feel the need to bother with the outside world. The surrounding neighbours who we all grew up with were company enough as we all stuck together,playing outside games,going fishing for tiddlers/sticklebacks and earning pocket-money at the farm,pea-picking and fruit-picking.
Those neighbours and myself exchange Christmas cards every year.
I'm not the only one who hates these times that we live in. It's as though it's a different world altogether.
If we,as kids years ago heard about a murder anywhere,we'd be petrified and always thought of " bad men " around. Nowadays,children are immune to the news of murderers as it's become an everyday thing and not only centred at " bad men ". Society is sad and sick. There's no deterrent.