If the second world war was happening today instead of 60 years ago

[Flossam]

Would our children be evacuated out of the city still do you think?

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if it is a choice between almost certain death by bombings, or a very high risk of being orphaned in a city at war, then i would rather evacuate my kids out of the city into the care of strangers, hoping that somehow they will have some sort of stability even if they are orphaned. and woont have to roam the ruins of a war torn wreck of a city scavenging for food.
id certainly be concerned about things like paedophiles, but id be more concerned about them not ddying etc. in mymind it would be the lesser of two evils.
i hope that makes sense.

somehow i dont think a nuclear bomb would only affect cities. there would certainly not be aircraft dropping bombs from overhead, it would be missiles fired from one country to another

Yes it does stitch. DP and I watched Narnia last night. And we wondered whether the government would still sanction it today really.

NP wasn't really thinking along the lines of nuclear bombs, in my mind I'd rather hope that it wouldn't come to that immediately if at all.

but if it was on the same scale as WW2 i think it would come to that

but i believe something on that scale would never happen again

mind you they said that after WW1

It couldn't happen today because child-rearing culture involves so many more demands on the parents and less use of children as unpaid labour, so hardly anyone would be up for receiving evacuees.
Stitch sounds very sane about child abuse being the lesser of two evils, but I am prepared to bet that many parents would not be.

what do you mean about unpaid labour..my mum and auntie were evacuated and went to school?

Z - lots of people on farms deliberately picked strong-looking older kids to help them out with the work. Many children were taken home by their parents for precisely that reason.
Also, general expectation that children would help much more in the house and with childcare than is common today. In those days it would be natural to think 'Oh, well another pair of hands around the place would be useful'. I can't see many people seeing it that way these days.

We wondered whether CRB style checks would have to be done too, really. It might actually be feasable to rule out innapropriate homes for evacuees I suppose.

if i lived in a city i would refuse to let my children be evacuated

no exceptions

I think you would expect help from child evacuees

...in Lebanon though it is whole families fleeing the infrastructure is being destroyed I imagine that would be the case here

a semblance of life continuing as usual would not be as likely to happen